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

They quenched their thirst by drinking contaminated water from a nearby well.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 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

And among the wise men that he knew and whose teachings he enjoyed, there was not one who had entirely reached it—the heavenly world—not one who had completely quenched the eternal thirst.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse