smouldering

Example Sentences

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The photos appear to show the tank smouldering after the attack and suggest that a fire raged there for days.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

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

As he lifted his smouldering stick of touchwood and blew on it, he caught sight of me for the first time.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood