Dictionary entry
Smolder
Pronunciation: /ˈsməʊldə/
Pronunciation
/ˈsməʊldə/
Myanmar Meaning
smoulder
Definition
smolder ( US ) = SMOULDER
Examples
- ‘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.’