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Once people realized that the authorities had not acted in their best interest, resentment began to smoulder.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2022

Smaller ones than in the Sierra de la Culebra continued to smoulder on Monday to the east in Navarra and Catalonia.

From Reuters ● Jun. 20, 2022

The fire continued to smoulder into Monday, but was threatening neither oil and gas infrastructure nor people's lives, Azerbaijan's emergency ministry said.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2021

Yet the remnants of what just a generation ago were vast swathes of virgin rainforest still smoulder and flame.

From Economist ● Sep. 10, 2015

In the centre of the town the bonfire was beginning to smoulder.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

More than a million Muslims are gathering in Mecca for the hajj pilgrimage overshadowed by the Middle East war, as animosity smoulders across the region despite a fragile ceasefire.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

But, he concluded: "I'm not sure this new version brings as much to the table... A camp fire burns at one side. It's just a pity that the production as a whole smoulders fitfully."

From BBC ● May 19, 2023

Another weekend of financial firefighting has doused the whole interest rate horizon as the banking blaze smoulders.

From Reuters ● Mar. 20, 2023

While that smoulders at the top, another row is flaring at the grassroots.

From Economist ● Apr. 28, 2011

There is a fading inward of the day, And all the pansy heaven clasps one star; The dwindling acres eastward glimmer gray, While all the world to westward smoulders far.

From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Julius Madison Cawein

He says if the foam had been fire retardant it would have smouldered, not burned.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026

A bank in the Badaro neighbourhood smouldered as firefighters sprayed water, while riot police stood nearby with shields.

From Reuters ● Feb. 16, 2023

Plastic chairs for the many mourners that had visited the house over the last three days stood above rain-soaked asphalt, while Arabic coffee slowly smouldered on the coals nearby.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2015

In all, six provinces in Sumatra were put on “emergency alert” as hundreds of “hotspots” of burning trees and vegetation flared and smouldered.

From Economist ● Sep. 10, 2015

Here there was a proper fireplace, richly carved with the arms and supporters of Benwick, and half a tree smouldered in the grate.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

In Stourbridge near the UK's second largest city of Birmingham, smoke rose from smouldering ruins of several roofless houses as firefighters sprayed water on the wreckage Friday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Large areas of scorched terrain still concealed active and smouldering pockets that could quickly reignite if the wind picks up again.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

Light morning rain boosted that outlook, though firefighters remained wary given previous flare-ups from smouldering embers in the devastated land, covering a bigger area than the island of Malta.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

BBC reporter Mike Apps, who is at the scene, said: "The land in front of me has been completely scorched by the blaze that has ripped through here, still smouldering in some areas."

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

It was early evening, and we were sitting about the smouldering embers of a brazier fire.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane