quenched

Example Sentences

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I sipped on this drink during a midday walk and it kept me cool, quenched and satisfied.

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2025

At this point near Gennadi village, its climate change-fueled fury was only quenched by the sea.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2023

Where temperatures never breached freezing, where less than half of sea-level oxygen quenched lungs, where gale-force winds scoured the hardscrabble rocks littering the peaks.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2023

Viewers who have been growing impatient for the MP's arrival had their thirst for Hancock material thoroughly quenched in Wednesday's instalment of ITV's reality series as Hancock sang and Ed Sheeran song.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2022

Sparks fly from hammers as big as my head, forge fires glow a red deeper than blood, and cottony plumes of steam erupt every few feet from freshly quenched swords.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir