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
The "quenchless ambition of an ordered mind" that Biographer Freeman finds in George Washington is an apt description of Freeman himself.
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
Bears down the opposing stream; quenchless his thirst, He takes the river at redoubled draughts: And with wide nostrils, snorting, skims the wave.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
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