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Example sentences for: extinguish

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These late scenes are over the top, as mean and reductive as editorials in a tabloid, and they nearly extinguish the moral subtlety of what's gone before.
To assert Spain’s authority and extinguish dissent, he ordered the execution of five Creole rebels.
Realizing that they couldn't get away with shooting Clinton fatally, Republicans sensibly deduced that the only other way to extinguish him was to make him commit suicide.
Active Cdc14 diffuses into the nucleus and cytoplasm to extinguish mitotic Cdk activity and to promote exit from mitosis.
That's why Gore has distilled this linkage to a single word--"vouchers"--and why Bradley is fighting to extinguish that word with such fury.