smouldering

Example Sentences

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On Friday, footage emerged of the smouldering and ruined 12,000-seat Azadi Indoor Stadium in Tehran.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

They are slightly better at detecting the large smoke particles created by slow, smouldering fires.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

AFP journalists joined a military-organised press tour through the smouldering wreckage of two former labs south of the town of Hsipaw in northeastern Shan state.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

Aerial video from the scene showed charred debris, smouldering vehicles and little remaining of the facility, which is owned by Accurate Energetic Systems.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025

He found that a small brand, burning away to its outer end, had kindled some fern at the edge of the fire, and the fern blazing up had set the turves smouldering.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien