snuffed out

With sangfroid, Mom snuffed out her cigarette with the toe of her high heel.

I snuffed out my cigarette and threw my whiskey-laced coffee across the newsroom in anger.

Snuffed out is the life of a boy who, 24 hours before he died, was drawing butterflies in chalk on his sidewalk.

Ursula finally survives her childhood, only to be snuffed out again in her 20s, the victim of a brutal husband.

If combustion occurs within a battery, says Boeing, it would be snuffed out in a microsecond for lack of oxygen.

Already poor Richard was very humble, his make-believe spirit all snuffed out.

There was a moon somewhere in the sky, but thick clouds lay over it and snuffed out its light.

In that brilliant sunshine, amid all that beauty, Myra's life had been snuffed out like a blown candle flame—to no purpose.

At last the candles snuffed out, and naught but the back log smoldered and glowed in the darkness.

Those of us who aren't ground under the heel of poverty will be snuffed out by disease.