How to Use smolder in a Sentence

smolder

verb
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  • The remains of the campfire smoldered.
  • Anger smoldered in my heart.
  • Her eyes smoldered with anger.
  • Fire can smolder below the surface in the duff for weeks.
    — New York Times, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Vivid mode makes the game’s River of Flame smolder through your screen.
    — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
  • With the ship still smoldering, the New Carissa broke in half.
    — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2020
  • There's some that have been known to smolder, if left unattended to, for that long.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • The morning heat began to smolder as Casarez’s cell phone buzzed.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 18 July 2022
  • If all trees are not yet ablaze, many seem to be in smoldering preparation to bring forth the fires of the season.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The Indonesian man on YouTube said the briquettes would smolder twice as long as charcoal, and a study in Ghana backed up the claim.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Trees and piles of debris continued to smolder, along the route, two days after the main fire burned through.
    — Julie Johnson, Sarah Ravani, Lauren Helper, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Aug. 2021
  • When police arrived, the 26-year-old’s body still smoldered.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The aroma of golden bread cooked over smoldering coals lingered in the air.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 15 Feb. 2020
  • Sometimes the gun just smolders This result has been cooking for quite some time.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Video from a traffic camera showed the truck still smoldering three hours after the crash.
    — Fox News, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The ground that surrounded the house on three sides was still smoldering, and the pump house was leveled by the flames, but the house itself remained.
    — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • In the snap, Jackman shot the camera a smoldering look, while wearing a gray shirt that had a few pieces of hair sticking on it.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • Banyan Tree in Lahaina smoldering at the base, but still standing.
    — Emi Tuyetnhi Tran, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • When cleared, peatlands are drained, leaving a vast area of tinder that can smolder under the ground for years.
    — Eric Roston | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Video footage from the scene showed the brown semi-truck smoldering with large plumes of smoke with packages strewn across the interstate.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Her hair was styled in textured, beachy waves for the evening, while her makeup focused on a smoldering cat eye and mauve lip.
    — Condé Nast, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The 53-year-old star just dropped two pics on Instagram of herself all geared up for smoldering temps.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 28 July 2023
  • Atop one of the campus' entrances, there was a noticeable stench of smoldering rubbish and petrol that burned the nose.
    — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 19 Nov. 2019
  • There was no loss of life reported in Evia from the fire that broke out on Aug. 3 and continued to smolder through Thursday.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Others stand in driveways next to houses that are now piles of ash, many still smoldering with acrid smoke.
    — Mike Baker Philip Cheung, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In September, the largest ESS facility in the world failed and began to smolder, putting the plant offline for weeks.
    — Louis Gritzo, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
  • But in recent years, many earth scientists have begun to make the case that these vague shapes are piles of dense, smoldering rock that date to the dawn of the planet.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Jan. 2020
  • About 200 fire personnel are on scene, where the fire continues to smolder.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2021
  • Patches of flames were still peeking through what was left of the pallets about 11:30 a.m., and the entire lot continued to smolder with thick, black smoke.
    — Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Thus, the police have been overwhelmed by hot spots that smolder and flare up around the city — not just in the Longfellow, where neighbors are starting to lose patience.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 2 Jan. 2020

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