unquenched
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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“Saltburn,” writer-director Emerald Fennell’s second feature, is about a lot of things: class, desire unquenched, obsession and a summer vacation at a sprawling upper-crust estate where things are certain to fall apart.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023
U.S. carriers including Delta Air Lines and United Airlines are betting big on American consumers' unquenched thirst for travel across the Atlantic by adding more flights to Europe.
From Reuters • Oct. 24, 2022
Brimming with unquenched optimism, "Humankind" stands with Coldplay's finest anthems — songs like "A Sky Full of Stars" and "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall."
From Salon • Oct. 22, 2021
He suspects that the appetite for Venus science will be unquenched, no matter what happens with NASA’s latest Discovery competition.
From Scientific American • Jun. 2, 2021
It is so, O sea! wild roses, With the day-long fog bedrenched, Have come from their inland closes With a thirst for you unquenched.
From Sea Poems by Rice, Cale Young
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