- present participle of smoulder.
smouldering
Example Sentences
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The photos appear to show the tank smouldering after the attack and suggest that a fire raged there for days.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
On Friday, footage emerged of the smouldering and ruined 12,000-seat Azadi Indoor Stadium in Tehran.
From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026
AFP journalists joined a military-organised press tour through the smouldering wreckage of two former labs south of the town of Hsipaw in northeastern Shan state.
From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026
"It feels illegal," she frets, as her heartbeat races with the drumbeat of this smouldering dance-pop anthem.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025
The flying rain had ceased for a time, and the sun gleamed up above; but all the lower city was still wrapped in a smouldering reek.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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