How to Use smolder in a Sentence

smolder

verb

• The remains of the campfire smoldered.
• Anger smoldered in my heart.
• Her eyes smoldered with anger.
• Eight years ago, some of them were still smoldering in the streets.
  — Tom Withers, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
• But even with the tamed blaze still smoldering, Hilton and the team carried on with the shoot.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2024
• Fire can smolder below the surface in the duff for weeks.
  — New York Times, 20 Aug. 2022
• Vivid mode makes the game’s River of Flame smolder through your screen.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
• With the ship still smoldering, the New Carissa broke in half.
  — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2020
• The hillside to the south of the freeway was smoldering and blackened.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• What’s better, live long and smolder like a coal, or burn bright like a fire?
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 19 July 2024
• The names of some teams kept—and still keep—Lost Cause embers smoldering.
  — Diane Roberts, The New Republic, 6 Nov. 2019
• There's some that have been known to smolder, if left unattended to, for that long.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• The morning heat began to smolder as Casarez’s cell phone buzzed.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 18 July 2022
• The slow, smoldering fire involved a sofa in the living room, the chief said.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 18 June 2018
• White has served up a number of smoldering looks this year.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2024
• If all trees are not yet ablaze, many seem to be in smoldering preparation to bring forth the fires of the season.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
• Heavy white smoke rose from a smoldering match factory in the free zone next to the crossing.
  — Albert Aji, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2018
• The Indonesian man on YouTube said the briquettes would smolder twice as long as charcoal, and a study in Ghana backed up the claim.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
• Trees and piles of debris continued to smolder, along the route, two days after the main fire burned through.
  — Julie Johnson, Sarah Ravani, Lauren Helper, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Aug. 2021
• When police arrived, the 26-year-old’s body still smoldered.
  — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
• The aroma of golden bread cooked over smoldering coals lingered in the air.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 15 Feb. 2020
• Their efforts stopped the spread of the flames within hours, but hard-to-reach spots in the thick timbers continued to smolder for days.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
• Sometimes the gun just smolders This result has been cooking for quite some time.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2019
• The very first murder victim found in 1975 was a man found down in the southern part of the county with his body still smoldering.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 14 June 2024
• Video from a traffic camera showed the truck still smoldering three hours after the crash.
  — Fox News, 1 Apr. 2020
• The ground that surrounded the house on three sides was still smoldering, and the pump house was leveled by the flames, but the house itself remained.
  — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
• The health consequences of the fires linger long after the ashes stop smoldering.
  — Paulina Smolinski, CBS News, 24 June 2024
• In the snap, Jackman shot the camera a smoldering look, while wearing a gray shirt that had a few pieces of hair sticking on it.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• Firefight in Tehama County By daybreak, hills on both sides of the roadway were completely burned over and smoldering.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 27 July 2024
• Even after firefighters managed to quell the largest flames, the debris pile continued to smolder and smoke into the following day.
  — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024