smolder

"Peatlands and organic soils can smolder for weeks to years, releasing enormous amounts of ancient carbon."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026

As a result, they may overlook slower, less visible fires that smolder deep within peat and organic soils.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026

Passions still smolder below the surface, but there is not enough oxygen to let them flame into life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

After Los Angeles firefighters suppressed the Jan. 1 fire known as the Lachman fire, it continued to smolder and burn underground, “unbeknownst to anyone,” according to federal officials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025

He grinned back, his eyes somehow managing to smolder, even in the dark.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

In Kim Eunho’s 1927 ink and color painting on silk, “Woman Reading the Fortune of the Day,” a hostess in traditional hanbok dress whiles away her break with gaming tiles as a cigarette smolders nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

While the first hour of this “Fire” smolders like an unusual domestic drama, pivotal disasters bring the lovers crashing down to earth — literally.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022

In "The Underground Railroad" he smolders as Royal, a free Black man who rescues an enslaved woman, Cora, from a heartless bounty hunter who never stops chasing her.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2021

As the Alisal fire smolders in Santa Barbara County, residents in Los Angeles and Ventura counties on Friday were bracing for the arrival of critical fire weather and the threat of Santa Ana winds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

The trees seethe and the house smolders, and standing in the gravel of the driveway, the daylight nearly finished, the locksmith has an unsettling thought: Someone might be coming for us.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

As parts of the city smoldered, many turned to Didion’s aching, poetic rendering of a paradise lost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

The blaze, which firefighters had said was contained hours later, smoldered underground in dense vegetation for days until powerful winds on Jan. 7 caused it to spread, authorities said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

It smoldered for four days at the facility, which is 18 miles up the coast from the city of Monterey, prompting the temporary evacuation of more than 1,200 residents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

When Harris returned the next day, fire still smoldered as he approached.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2025

Instead of burning quickly, the green chips smoldered and filled the hollow log with thick, choking smoke.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

About a ton of smoldering chemicals in big drums had released chlorine-compound fumes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

“Heartbroken beyond words,” Hilton wrote while sharing live ABC7 footage of the smoldering remains of her home.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

“The paintings are about the smoldering tensions that underlie the American dream, so I think it’s a particularly apt moment to bring them back into the public eye.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

He’s on firmer footing exploring his two leads as they square off inside this smoldering crucible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

As I looked around I saw Trip’s tent lying half collapsed and smoldering in his fire.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss