Example Sentences

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The pandemic had squelched overseas tourism, which had sustained economic activity in recent years.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2022

Only one, from a University of Washington yeast bank, worked at all; as he discovered too late, leaking coolant had squelched the other strains.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2017

The nation's press has delivered almost daily truckloads of damning evidence about Bert Lance's banking habits and kept the story alive long after Powell and his boss thought they had squelched it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shultz thought he and Weinberger had squelched the idea.

From Time Magazine Archive

So Bart had squelched him promptly and properly.

From Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent by Chapman, Allen