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smoulder

[ UK /smˈə‍ʊldɐ/ ]
VERB
  1. burn slowly and without a flame
    a smoldering fire
  2. have strong suppressed feelings
NOUN
  1. a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame
    the smoulder suddenly became a blaze

How To Use smoulder In A Sentence

  • Who dareth name the fiend?" croaked an awful voice, whereat Black Lewin halted, gaped and stood a-tremble, while beneath steel cap and bascinet all men's hair stirred and rose with horror; for before them was a ghastly shape, a shape that crouched in the gloom with dreadful face aflame with smouldering green fire. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
  • I was too much at risk from the smoulder of his irritability, sudden blazes of rage, to see his deep disappointment with life.
  • One section of the factory's main exterior wall had already collapsed, leaving a pile of smouldering rubble. Times, Sunday Times
  • The good news for hot hatch lovers is there is a smouldering two-litre twin turbo VXR waiting in the wings that hits showrooms in spring. The Sun
  • Several hours after the crash, the building still was smouldering, with black smoke hanging in the air.
  • Anthony remained standing, gazing at a large, smouldering log that looked poised to roll forward undesirably. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • A delicate balance of smoulder and sensitivity that's best experienced on YouTube, where the track has rapidly earned a million views. F&M playlist
  • And the 34-year-old also seems to veer towards women with long dark tresses and smouldering brown eyes. The Sun
  • When the hatch cover was closed the fire was smouldering in the dunnage, most likely the carpet, and the vessel sailed from Constanza in that condition.
  • Pictures showed smears of blood, a body outside the building and smouldering wreckage on an upper floor. Times, Sunday Times
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