Example Sentences

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Firefighters are still combing the smoking debris, checking for unextinguished flames.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2024

Many are ignited either by lightning strikes or human activity, including untended campfires, unextinguished cigarettes, engine sparks and equipment malfunction.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2022

The Malboeuf cousins, both from southern Arizona, were charged on five counts including causing timber to burn, leaving a fire unattended and unextinguished and building a campfire without removing all surrounding flammable material.

From Reuters • Aug. 24, 2011

The only hope of mine that remained unextinguished after leaving the Enrollment Office was getting into a performing arts school for singing, but the auditions were not until the last week of August.

From Newsweek

In the summer tornado of 1929, my mother’s hand is unextinguished.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison