How to Use quench in a Sentence

quench

verb
  • Across the street and a few steps away, quench your thirst at Wines in the Fork.
    Rebecca Deurlein, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2022
  • None of the three asked for water or milk to quench the fire.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 22 Oct. 2020
  • His father’s fate hasn’t quenched his thirst for the ocean.
    Catherine Bray, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Cavar also licked the cave's damp walls to quench his thirst.
    CBS News, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Cavar also licked the cave’s damp walls to quench his thirst.
    Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
  • And to quench the thirstiest of thirsts, Jon Bernthal stars.
    Vulture, 14 July 2022
  • Sure, a glass of cool water can go a long way to quench a dry thirst.
    Rebecca Rakowitz, Parents, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In print as in song, Young’s passion will not be quenched.
    Bob Doerschuk, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2019
  • By mid-June the monsoon rains should be quenching the parched ground.
    The Economist, 27 June 2019
  • The only way to quench that thirst is to brand cattle and rip open a can of Lone Star.
    Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Jan. 2022
  • To quench your hair's thirst, a few drops of this hydrating oil will do the trick.
    ELLE, 10 June 2022
  • When a young man tries to quench its thirst, the water dribbles out of a hole in its neck.
    Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Sometimes the best beers are simple and just help quench your thirst.
    Fox News, 3 May 2017
  • This should quench your thirst for football talk for the time being.
    The Lonnquist Notes, By Kevin Lonnquist, star-telegram.com, 3 July 2017
  • Next, to quench parched skin ahead of your face rolling session, do a quick spritz of Chanel’s face mist.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Skin feels bone-dry and no amount of duty-free lotions can quench the #thirst.
    Karina Hoshikawa, Allure, 2 Apr. 2019
  • So any fresh water source is now fair game for dad to quench his thirst.
    Brianna Steinhilber /, NBC News, 12 June 2018
  • Still, the clubhouse sprinklers had been unable to quench the fire, LeRoy said.
    Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 18 Feb. 2022
  • At some holes, players poured cold beer into the bowl and quenched their thirst.
    Keith Gave, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2018
  • Parque, which her team hopes will quench the true crime thirst of its viewers.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2024
  • No, technologies like these won’t quench the world’s thirst.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 8 June 2018
  • Come hither, parched ones, because the Droughtlander is over and the time has come to quench! your! thirst!
    Mehera Bonner, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Nov. 2018
  • But the metaphorical monsoons have come and your thirst is about to be quenched.
    Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Jolie decided to take a break and quench her thirst — with water from the dog bowl.
    Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The spring bubbling forth quenched wagoneers on the Santa Fe Trail.
    Rick Montgomery, kansascity.com, 12 May 2017
  • But the downpour won’t quench my parched farm farther south in the state’s San Joaquin Valley.
    Jean Sagouspe, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2017
  • The first of those has already helped quench a recent stock rally.
    John Cheng, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2022
  • But that wasn’t nearly enough to quench Strange’s football thirst.
    Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
  • Bartenders quench the thirst of clubgoers with cold Sahara Slants, the house’s namesake cocktail made with the Ghanaian spirit akpeteshie.
    Usa Today Network, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
  • The higher tides may have even made freshwater less available to small mammals and prompted the frenzy on the cactuses stems to quench their thirst.
    Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 13 July 2024

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