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
His countenance reminded one of a lamp quenched, waiting to be re-lit—and alas! it was not himself that could now kindle the lustre of animated expression: he was dependent on another for that office!
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
