smolder

"Peatlands and organic soils can smolder for weeks to years, releasing enormous amounts of ancient carbon."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026

As a result, they may overlook slower, less visible fires that smolder deep within peat and organic soils.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026

Passions still smolder below the surface, but there is not enough oxygen to let them flame into life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

Why was an earlier Palisades fire allowed to smolder until it sparked the inferno that wiped out the town?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

Malia had said to me and Barack, her embarrassment already beginning to smolder as we rode the elevator downstairs.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

In Kim Eunho’s 1927 ink and color painting on silk, “Woman Reading the Fortune of the Day,” a hostess in traditional hanbok dress whiles away her break with gaming tiles as a cigarette smolders nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

The song both rocks and smolders, and it fits across many genres of streaming playlists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2022

In "The Underground Railroad" he smolders as Royal, a free Black man who rescues an enslaved woman, Cora, from a heartless bounty hunter who never stops chasing her.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2021

Rooney Mara, as a carny who’s not quite entirely slipped to the dark side, smolders quietly; you’re never sure what she’s thinking but you can’t look away.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

The trees seethe and the house smolders, and standing in the gravel of the driveway, the daylight nearly finished, the locksmith has an unsettling thought: Someone might be coming for us.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

According to the ATF special agent, a firebrand became lodged within dense chaparral and then smoldered and burned within the roots of the vegetation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025

The blaze, which firefighters had said was contained hours later, smoldered underground in dense vegetation for days until powerful winds on Jan. 7 caused it to spread, authorities said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

It smoldered for several days, spewing toxic gas into the air and prompting the evacuation of about 1,500 people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025

The fire, contained to a single building, smoldered for several days in mid-January.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

As one rolled into the pile of fallen silk, Pinmei stared as the fabric smoldered and curled, the flames sputtering as if gasping.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

“Heartbroken beyond words,” Hilton wrote while sharing live ABC7 footage of the smoldering remains of her home.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

Corvette gets distracted by a mysterious French model played by LaKeith Stanfield, smoldering like Rudolph Valentino.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Here’s a list of the most memorable jumps from trash TV to the smoldering dumpster of 21st century politics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

The smoldering ashes at the bottom of the building had broken out into a few fledgling fires, and he moved to put them out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

Another smoldering sailor burst out of the hold.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan