smouldering

Example Sentences

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"But that's not to say the fires in the western Mournes aren't still smouldering," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 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

Firefighters can be seen picking their way across the burnt ground, attempting to put out the still smouldering wreckage with their hoses.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2025

Its fires were now dimmed, and it stood in smouldering slumber, as threatening and dangerous as a sleeping beast.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien