to put out

• “Danielle Mitterrand said that sometimes you wondered if the press wanted to put out the fire or make it into something bigger.”

  Simon & Schuster: Barbara Bush

• “Why would I want to put out there on my license - hey, I'm a nut job," said Marvin Myers, president of the Georgia Vietnam Veterans Alliance Inc.”

  ajc.com - News

• “A tower of three made a bar the right height to put out shakers and fixings for our preppy cocktail of choice, PV&Ts—Pink Vodka Tonics, with a splash of grenadine and green fruit skewers, alternating lime and kiwi.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Swell Dressed Party

• “As I bent to put out the lamp, I heard her speak; a low half-muffled growl, not like her clear voice before the fight.”

  The Bull From The Sea

• “While preaching at the lake of Gennesaret, Christ directed Peter to put out his nets for fish.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art

• “Our firemen were all ready to put out the fire; and the Saracens, not being able to aim straight at them, on account of the two pent-house wings which the King had made, shot straight up into the clouds, so that the fire-darts fell right on top of them.”

  The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville

• “The blast sent a huge cloud of black smoke over Baghdad's Andalus square, and firefighters struggled to put out the blaze.”

  USA Today: Two blasts kill 5 In Iraq bombings

• “Turned out to be nothing but some triggerhappy grunts back at the fire base, but we had to put out ambushes and sit around.”

  1968

• “He devoured kung-pao chicken and chili shrimp, with a Tsingtao beer to put out the fire from the peppers.”

  Counting Up, Counting Down

• “Approved [Langsdorff's proposal to put out to the neutral boundary and, if possible, fighting through to Buenos Aires].”

  Graf Spee

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