snuff

Example Sentences

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He felt the wind try to snuff out his belief, his hope, but he held on tightly to it.

From Literature

Home sales have limped along since rising prices and mortgage rates snuffed out the pandemic’s ultrahot seller’s market several years ago.

From Barron's

The kit’s nose twitched as he snuffed around.

From Literature

“As for me, I shall do without my snuff until we buy yours.”

From Literature

Among the dead were athletes, artists and students whose photographs and brief biographies have since flooded social media, creating a digital memorial of young lives snuffed out under an internet blockade.

From The Wall Street Journal