simmer

Example Sentences

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Traders will have the weekend to let that one simmer.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Even as Singh takes office, tensions in Manipur continue to simmer.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

Consider the long simmer over Pete Rose’s lifetime baseball ban, which held firm until it was lifted…months after his death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

I’m impatient too, I get it, but please, do not turn up the temperature to make your pot simmer faster.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025

These tensions and animosities would brew and simmer for many decades, and eventually they would result in urban unrest on a grand scale in the twentieth century.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy