smolder
/ˈsməʊldə/
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American sound/ˈsməʊldə/
smolder
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- Final r is pronounced in US English
smol - der -> smolder
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- ‘So far she could only see fire and the ruins of houses that had already burned down or were smoldering in the flames.’
- ‘A marble fireplace occupied one whole wall, the remains of a fire slowly smoldering in the hearth.’
- ‘Three crews were brought in to bring the barn blaze under control and the smouldering hay was transported out of the barn on tractors to spread on nearby fields.’
- ‘The incense will slowly smoulder, filling the room with its delightful fragrance.’
- ‘When Columbus landed on what is now Puerto Rico, he saw Taino natives slow-roasting meat on a grid over a pit filled with smoldering, burned down wood.’
- ‘Several hours after the crash, the building still was smouldering, with black smoke hanging in the air.’
- ‘As I was walking back the last night it there was the remains of a pallet smouldering in the smoke.’
- ‘If you try to burn it too slowly, the fire will change from flaming to smoldering combustion.’
- ‘The remaining embers lay smoldering, barely giving off any glow in the dark.’
- ‘Some fires smoldered for weeks, burning down through logging slash and the deep soil until they scorched the rocks below.’
- ‘Road signs become illegible through the smoke screen of charcoal burning, cigarettes smoldering in the grass.’
- ‘Even when the water cannon finally beat back the flames, timbers smoked and embers smouldered until rain finally fell.’
- ‘Fires had broken out during the night and there were several plumes of dark smoke still smoldering throughout the city.’
- ‘Burning vehicles smoldered in the middle of the road.’
- ‘A single strand of simple, unsophisticated smoke smoldered silently upward; spiraling simperingly into a sunlit bed of stagnant smog.’
- ‘Four pumps from North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service were at Fylingdales Moor helping to finally put out the fire, which has raged and smouldered for five days.’
- ‘Cigarettes are designed to smoulder, to burn slowly.’
- ‘A fuel that burned too fast would explode like a bomb; a fuel that burned too slow would smolder like a barbecue grill.’
- ‘It was simply smouldering, the flames long burned out leaving nothing but some charcoal what was once wood.’
- ‘Towering over the run-down streets of Hawaiian Gardens, the casino sports a 10-foot-high volcano that smolders and periodically spits out fire.’
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