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Peatland fires are common in Kalimantan and can smoulder and spread under the soil for weeks or months, emitting huge quantities of smoke and sometimes causing surface blazes.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

It is a tussle that continues to smoulder.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

As France frets about an extended drought and prospects for more wildfires in another long summer, one blaze that erupted eight months ago in the southwest of the country still smoulders away underground.

From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2023

Link to video: James Richardson's European Football Papers Review AC Jimbo smoulders back into the European football papers review hot seat.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2013

Then again the flames flicker and die away, and the fire smoulders in its ashes, to break out again, after a time, with renewed and a more concentrated fury.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

Six-time Brits winner and triple nominee Dua Lipa smouldered in a fitted, black leather sculpted dress by Donatella Versace.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024

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

They stood there in complete silence, side by side, while the incense smouldered into ashes; and then because the sun was sinking, Wang Lung shouldered the box and they went home.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

Before firefighters had finished extinguishing the blaze, I found Liliya Velyka, a 28-year-old book blogger, raking through the smouldering ruins, seeing if anything could be saved.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

From damaged port infrastructure to listing ships with bridges blackened and containers still smouldering, the evidence is everywhere.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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

At times the spell would be broken suddenly: on shelves or in hallways of my mother’s cave, large old shapes with smouldering eyes sat watching me.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner