inextinguishable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- inextinguishableness noun
- inextinguishably adverb
Etymology
Origin of inextinguishable
First recorded in 1500–10; in- 3 + extinguishable ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Being at home is a ritual, as religious, in its way, as remembering the Maccabees’ inextinguishable lamp or the exodus from Egypt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
The images of daily life amid destruction and rubble — children, bicyclists, workers, laundry drying from high floors in a half-destroyed building — hint at an inextinguishable flame carrying on through a campaign of death.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025
“To blind hatred, we will always oppose the inextinguishable thirst for teaching. The thirst for knowledge. The thirst for living free,” he added.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2023
"We will always counter blind hatred with the inextinguishable thirst to teach. The thirst to learn. The thirst to live freely".
From Reuters • Oct. 16, 2023
An inextinguishable elation gripped the room and the voices of the young aviators were fleshed with bravado.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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