extinguishable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for extinguishable
Adjective
  • The labrets themselves, likely made of perishable materials like wood or leather, have long since vanished, leaving only their unintended signature on skeletal remains.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • So that’s a very important thing, to collect the perishable evidence.
    Gary Stix, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But what Garry learned through his unique, unexpected, painful, and beautiful odyssey is that these mortal moments can also energize and inspire.
    Jason Phillips, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Such a merging of a mortal individual with a pitilessly abstract power like Nemesis is closer to myth than to history.
    Rachel Hadas, The Conversation, 5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Storm's Recovery Rumble: Resolved a bug where Storm's Ultimate Ability could end abnormally if trapped by recovering destructible structures.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • That slick gameplay is paired with gorgeous environments, and the two meet head-on with one of Tekken’s oldest features: multi-leveled, destructible environments.
    Veerender Jubbal, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The program's framework encourages a cooperative relationship with the IRS, allowing taxpayers to address discrepancies in a more controlled and predictable manner.
    Jessica Ledingham, J.D., LL.M., Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Her first poetry collection, 2019’s Hard Damage, is a controlled and imaginative exploration of the effect of exile on the self.
    Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Although a prison population is naturally somewhat transient, some students were in his class for more than a decade, longtime friend Rachel Daly said.
    Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Civilizations are inevitably transient — rising, expanding, collapsing, disappearing.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Zhang films the turbulent yet nuanced action in dry, restrained tableaux of an elusive lyricism, a poetry that, to match Beibei’s relentless pursuits, remains just out of reach.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Some folks might overstate the likely influence of those who call for a more restrained U.S. approach to the world within a second Trump administration, the scholars wrote in the opinion piece.
    Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Extinguishable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extinguishable. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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