quenchless
IPA: kwˈɛntʃɫʌs
adjective
- That cannot be quenched; unquenchable.
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Examples of "quenchless" in Sentences
- All brandishing their162 brands of quenchless fire,
- Precaution however was ineffectual, for their thirst was quenchless.
- They circulate in and out of the kitchen with their quenchless thirst and bottomless bellies.
- The "fire/And motion of the soul" of the Byronic hero is "quenchless evermore" and "Preys upon high adventure"
- On the one hand, we depend on energy corporations to drive the economy, and to slake America's quenchless thirst for cheap, reliable fuel.
- Furthermore, "these [fragments] were destined to a noble lot ... to light another land, the quenchless ray that soon shall gloriously expand"
- One listening for cries of fear or pleas of mercy would have heard none; men, women or children, they died slashing and clawing, their last gasp a sob of fury, or a snarl of quenchless hatred.
- Once more I write with the splendours of the quenchless fires in sight, and the usual world seems twilight and commonplace by the fierce glare of Halemaumau, and the fitful glare of the other and loftier flame, which is burning ten thousand feet higher in lonely
- I had a chance to talk recently with Dr. Sarah B. Warren, a psychologist and addiction specialist, who believes the calamity in the Gulf of Mexico may be that wake up call we need that pushes us to take the hard steps necessary to overcome our quenchless thirst for oil.