Sentences with 'extinguish'
Example sentences and phrases with the word extinguish and other words derived from it.
• « Simultaneously, the world was forced to grapple with the fact that human beings now had the capacity to extinguish all life on earth through atomic weapons. These two traumas, the Holocaust and the bomb, forced "Western civilisation" as a whole to rethink its own identity afterwards. »
• « During the 16th century, Protestantism spread across northern Europe and Catholic countries responded by attempting to extinguish what was seen as the Protestant threat. »