There is a link, not of nature, but of simple succession, between the useful action of the person who extinguishes the conflagration, and this knowledge.
The technique of the effects of the water is the theoretical activity which precedes; the action of him who extinguishes the fire is alone useful.
A similar process in the case of hard green leaves extinguishes the red, and sends green light from the body of the leaves to the eye.
But the obliquity of reflection which extinguishes the shorter waves does not extinguish the longer ones, hence the phenomena of colours.
In a word, the conscience of a credulous man is guided by men whose own conscience is in error, or whose interestextinguishes intelligence.
In the eyes of a passionate lover, the presence of his mistress extinguishes the fires of hell, and her charms blot out all the pleasures of Paradise.
This gas extinguishes all burning bodies plunged into it, and does not itself burn.
Absence lessens weak, and intensifies violent, passions, as wind extinguishes a taper and lights up a fire.
Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity,= 25 =both in the slanderer and the person who listens to it.
If she allows it to burn, it is a sign that his attentions are not desired; but if she extinguishes it, she thus intimates that he is accepted.
This strictness, like ambition, "overleaps itself," andextinguishes the spirit it is designed to foster.
It breathes in the moist air, and feeds its soul with dismal ennui, which extinguishes thought as a wet, dirty cloth extinguishes the fire of a smouldering coal.
In both alike there has been a contest, between the school which seeks to absorb Christianity in philosophy, and that which extinguishes philosophy by Christianity.
For after the mephitic portion is absorbed by a caustic alkaline lixivium, the remaining portion is not rendered salubrious; and although it occasions no precipitate in lime-water, it nevertheless extinguishes flame and destroys life.
The rapacity of Courts discourages agriculture, extinguishes industry, produces want, pestilence and misery.
In the eyes of a passionate lover, the presence of his mistressextinguishes the flames of hell, and her charms efface all the pleasures of paradise.
It feebly reddens litmus paper, extinguishes the flame of a burning taper, and forms a white precipitate in aqueous solutions of lime and baryta, which is soluble in acetic acid.
Hydrobromic acid gas is colourless and non-inflammable; it extinguishes flame.
When the smelter has concluded his operation, he extinguishes the fire with water, removes the lids from the pots, throws earth mixed with ash around and over them, and when they have cooled, takes out the cakes from the pots.
Finally, the assistant extinguishes all the glowing coals, and chips off the dry lute from the mouth of the copper pipe with a hammer; one end of this hammer is pointed, the other round, and it has a wooden handle five feet long.
Fire can only propagate when it finds matter analogous to itself: it extinguishes when it encounters bodies which it cannot embrace; that is to say, that do not bear towards it a certain degree of relation or affinity.
Thus transportation not only removes the habitual criminal, it extinguishes the embers of insurrection: it prevents the dreaded war between property and poverty, and silently withdraws a mass of dangerous discontent.
It is not the guilt of the sufferer which extinguishes their pity: they would run to witness the murder of a saint.
Absolute identity would be pantheism, which leaves God lonely and loveless, and extinguishes man, as well as his morality.
The absolute identification of the actual and ideal extinguishes morality, either in something lower or something higher.
In the life of man at least, the separation of the emotional and intellectual elementsextinguishes both.
He knocks, receives no answer, opens it, and accidentally extinguisheshis candle in doing so.
This system is a blight of the gravest character upon the local industry of the inhabitants, and it is a suicidal and unstatesmanlike policy that crushes and extinguishes all enterprise.
It extinguishes all murmur, repining and ingratitude towards that Being who has allotted him his part to act in this world.
The leaves bruised and boiled in wine, and drank, stays the heat of lust in man or woman, and quite extinguishes it, if it be long used: The seed also is of the same effect.
The water of white Poppies extinguishes all heat against nature, helps head-aches coming of heat, and too long standing in the sun.
The giving then of cold medicines to a man in his natural temper, the season of the year also being but moderately hot, extinguishes natural heat in the body of man.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "extinguishes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
