quenchless
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- quenchlessly adverb
- quenchlessness noun
Etymology
Origin of quenchless
Example Sentences
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Probably Longfellow came closest, noting that lighthouses are “steadfast, serene … a quenchless flame.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2017
This was Donizetti's 63rd opera, and it is a charmer with a quenchless flow of melody and fun involving the usual op�ra bouffe case of mistaken identity.
From Time Magazine Archive
By this time "the quenchless ambition of an ordered mind" disclosed in Freeman's portrait of the early years has mellowed to massive, benevolent prudence.
From Time Magazine Archive
In its quenchless vitality, it drinks up the golden decades like nectar at the banquet table of life.
From Time Magazine Archive
They said the earth began in heat, that it was a ball of fire a few miles below its surface, and the suns were great flaming furnaces burning up with quenchless fire.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward
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