Smolder

Definition

smolder ( US ) = SMOULDER

Examples

1. ‘So far she could only see fire and the ruins of houses that had already burned down or were smoldering in the flames.’
2. ‘A marble fireplace occupied one whole wall
3. the remains of a fire slowly smoldering in the hearth.’
4. ‘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.’
5. ‘The incense will slowly smoulder
6. filling the room with its delightful fragrance.’
7. ‘When Columbus landed on what is now Puerto Rico
8. he saw Taino natives slow-roasting meat on a grid over a pit filled with smoldering
9. burned down wood.’
10. ‘Several hours after the crash
11. the building still was smouldering
12. with black smoke hanging in the air.’
13. ‘As I was walking back the last night it there was the remains of a pallet smouldering in the smoke.’
14. ‘If you try to burn it too slowly
15. the fire will change from flaming to smoldering combustion.’
16. ‘The remaining embers lay smoldering
17. barely giving off any glow in the dark.’
18. ‘Some fires smoldered for weeks
19. burning down through logging slash and the deep soil until they scorched the rocks below.’
20. ‘Road signs become illegible through the smoke screen of charcoal burning
21. cigarettes smoldering in the grass.’
22. ‘Even when the water cannon finally beat back the flames
23. timbers smoked and embers smouldered until rain finally fell.’
24. ‘Fires had broken out during the night and there were several plumes of dark smoke still smoldering throughout the city.’
25. ‘Burning vehicles smoldered in the middle of the road.’
26. ‘A single strand of simple
27. unsophisticated smoke smoldered silently upward; spiraling simperingly into a sunlit bed of stagnant smog.’
28. ‘Four pumps from North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service were at Fylingdales Moor helping to finally put out the fire
29. which has raged and smouldered for five days.’
30. ‘Cigarettes are designed to smoulder
31. to burn slowly.’
32. ‘A fuel that burned too fast would explode like a bomb; a fuel that burned too slow would smolder like a barbecue grill.’
33. ‘It was simply smouldering
34. the flames long burned out leaving nothing but some charcoal what was once wood.’
35. ‘Towering over the run-down streets of Hawaiian Gardens
36. the casino sports a 10-foot-high volcano that smolders and periodically spits out fire.’