smouldering

Example Sentences

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Smouldering coals reignited two years later with the release of Steven Spielberg's film.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2013

Smouldering resentment is also growing among Israel's Arab citizens, who make up 20% of the population.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2013

"Smouldering peat, certainly," I said, rising with him.

From A Sea Queen's Sailing by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

Smouldering indignation blazed, she threw back her head with eyes as cold as his, a mouth as hard.

From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph

There is in this, and in "By Smouldering Embers," a graver tenderness, a more pervasive sobriety, than he had revealed before.

From Edward MacDowell by Gilman, Lawrence