How to Use unquenchable in a Sentence
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And some more bits about flashes of fire, a raging flame and unquenchable love.
—Karla Adam, Washington Post, 19 May 2018
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Being able to take in the scene of a game against Wayne State from a courtside seat gave him an unquenchable passion for the sport.
—Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
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On the sharp side, there’s the unquenchable quest to grow every single plant native to the planet.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2021
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There is an unquenchable lust in the hearts Houston Astros fans for cheap hot dogs.
—Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2018
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Gretzky does see one common trait among the greats: the unquenchable drive to be better.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
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However, his unquenchable robot thirst for killing is, like Arnie, a blot on his copy book.
—SI.com, 26 Aug. 2019
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To feed the city’s unquenchable thirst for energy, Dubai recently broke ground on the world’s largest single-site solar park.
—Bloomberg.com, 16 Apr. 2018
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An unquenchable desire for true crime content spurs these donors to fund a technique pioneered in the Golden State Killer case.
—Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
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Meanwhile, the unquenchable perfume sampler in me is more open-minded.
—Alex Beggs, The Cut, 29 Mar. 2018
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The driving force is always greed and the unquenchable desire for capital; the casualties are always the poor, the vanquished and the marginalized.
—Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022
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There’s almost something painful, or if not that, despairing and unquenchable in those newborn squeals.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2021
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New schematic ideas, rule changes that favor wide receivers and the unquenchable desire to gain yards in chunks can turn even the most genuine of promises into afterthoughts.
—Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2021
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One is his unquenchable passion to create better public access to Lake Erie.
—Steven Litt, cleveland, 21 June 2021
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Over the last two weeks, Hep has symbolized a family’s unquenchable love, every emotion caught by cameras trained on him from tipoff to final buzzer.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2021
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The women are so elegant and vibrant, with an unquenchable spirit.
—Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
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His work ethic also suggests an unquenchable thirst, a never-ending wish for more.
—Stephanie Burt, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2022
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The young man's muscles revived, his stamina returned, yet what didn't change was an unquenchable optimism.
—Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 18 Oct. 2019
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Imagine Mad Men if Don Draper's dark secret was an unquenchable desire for fancy sweets.
—Scott Meslow, GQ, 21 Jan. 2018
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As soon as the season changes, your skin does, too, suddenly developing an unquenchable thirst.
—Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 16 Mar. 2018
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The best inheritance in Mally Skok’s family is an unquenchable thirst for charm.
—Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2023
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Who can forget Federer’s comeback, his saved match points and Nadal’s unquenchable desire?
—Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 4 July 2022
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Lewis also attempts to uncover what drives Clark’s endless pursuit of the next thing and his seemingly unquenchable desire for more.
—Simon Hill, Wired, 11 Dec. 2021
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Defined by their inability to read the room and their unquenchable thirst for attention, the two teens find themselves in direct competition with Zoya and Julien on the eve of the Halloween contest.
—refinery29.com, 11 Aug. 2021
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Thanks to the unquenchable market for oil and gas, Houston has rarely been short of benefactors eager to turn petrodollars into cultural treasures.
—Michael Agresta, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2021
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Ottessa Moshfegh has a glittering intellect and an unquenchable dark turn of mind.
—New York Times, 13 June 2022
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For better or worse Eddie remains an antic nebbish, while Venom huffs and puffs with unquenchable indignation at the sorry state of the human world.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
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Even American Jews lacked the unquenchable sense of urgency the crisis demanded.
—Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
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Anna’s mother has an unquenchable desire to help others.
—Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
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What accounts for their dark view of the world, their elevated sense of humor and irony, and, perhaps most poignantly for this particular group, their unquenchable anxiety?
—Gary Shteyngart, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
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The film, written by the director and Thomas Reider, is often brutal in content and spare in style, a celebration of unquenchable tenacity and the sustaining power of love.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
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