Extinguish has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Don't forget to extinguish your cigarette. | |
| 2. | The fireman could not extinguish the flames. | |
| 3. | Waves extinguish a wind. | |
| 4. | The Communists chose to blockade the western part of Berlin. They cut off food and supplies to more than two million Germans in an effort to extinguish the last flame of freedom in Berlin. | |
| 5. | They worked together to extinguish the fire. | |
| 6. | The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. | |
| 7. | Fadil and Layla wanted to extinguish the smoldering fire in their relationship. | |
| 8. | Daphnis, finding the warmth intolerable, plunged into the rivers; sometimes he merely bathed, sometimes he amused himself with trying to catch the fish which slipped between his fingers and glided through the water, and sometimes he drank of the stream as if he wished to extinguish the flame which he felt within him. | |
| 9. | I loved Amaryllis. I forgot to eat or to drink; and I could take no rest, for sleep was banished from my eyelids. My soul was sad, my heart beat quick, my limbs felt a deadly chill. Now I wept and cried aloud, as if I had been beaten, now I was as silent as if I were dead, and now I plunged into the rivers, as if to extinguish the flame which consumed me. | |
| 10. | Death does not extinguish, it transforms; does not annihilate, it renews; does not divorce, it approaches. |