Examples of snuffed

• They have a certain potential, which can be snuffed out, but they do not attain the more autonomous state of life.

• Clearly, wood materials were dropped into the shaft while burning and snuffed out due to lack of oxygen as the shaft filled.

• You couldn't believe his life could be snuffed out.

• The chalk downs began to revert to sheep pasture, which snuffed out many arable farmers and meant a steeply falling demand for labour.

• It would be less than truthful to suggest that such sharp practices have been snuffed out or discontinued.

• Is it not time you snuffed the profiteers out?

• On the contrary, whenever one of those countries has moved towards independence it has been ruthlessly snuffed out.

• However, all rebellion has been snuffed out over the past 13 years, and that is sad.

• How many tens of thousands of lives will be snuffed out or seriously affected if we do not adopt these two measures?

• All those measures are likely to dampen consumer activity and could lead to the recovery being snuffed out before it has got going.

• The deal was attractive but now it is inconvenient to its sponsor and it is to be snuffed out.

• Victims of loyalist firebombs, their young lives were snuffed out.

• If we do not support our friends, one by one they will be snuffed out and, in the end, we may find ourselves isolated.

• So my little moment of glory as an academic historian was, in a sense, snuffed out before it even began.

• If the forest were sold to faceless investors those rights could be snuffed out and people would be denied rights of access.