How To Use Smoulder In A Sentence
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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
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I was too much at risk from the smoulder of his irritability, sudden blazes of rage, to see his deep disappointment with life.
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One section of the factory's main exterior wall had already collapsed, leaving a pile of smouldering rubble.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Several hours after the crash, the building still was smouldering, with black smoke hanging in the air.
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Anthony remained standing, gazing at a large, smouldering log that looked poised to roll forward undesirably.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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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
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And the 34-year-old also seems to veer towards women with long dark tresses and smouldering brown eyes.
The Sun
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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.
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Pictures showed smears of blood, a body outside the building and smouldering wreckage on an upper floor.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is too much of a cold fish to capture our hearts and often seems more sullen than smouldering.
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The fire is still smouldering and could flare at any moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rooms were hazed with the fumes from the keproot pipes of the addicted and fuggy with the smell of the resins smouldering in the censers.
Rogue Rainlord
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So blackens a brand in his eyeshot asmoulder awhile from the pyre.
Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III
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At the far end of the lake, near the base of smouldering Mount Agung, sprawled a tight group of modest boxlike two-story structures enameled a bright aquamarine.
Orphan Star
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Fires on the tile floors were still smouldering as we toured the area.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once she had written that his eyes were "smouldering '.
Bomber
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Things that even in better writing only smouldered, flare up here in full force.
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A number of buildings around the Parliament were still smouldering today.
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We need to be on the down side of the glacial cycle, simple having more squirrels follow the ice line north is now a net loss because we want the ice line to start its return back south, otherwise the planet will smoulder.
The Saddest Sentence I've Read Today, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Every nerve smouldered on a short fuse.
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They exchange a smouldering look before she cycles away, apparently out of reach.
Times, Sunday Times
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Black spindle-legs curled up to meet red-gimleted black faces, donkeys headless and legless, or sieves of shrapnel; camels with necks writhed back on to their humps, rotting already in pools of blood and bile-yellow water, heads without faces, and faces without anything below, cobwebbed arms and legs, and black skins grilled to crackling on smouldering palm-leaf -- don't look at it.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War
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The rest is a dark drift of smouldering purple, hanging in the air like smoke from a pyre of burning shoe-gazers.
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You are looking at yourself on screen but need to look past that smouldering pout and see if there's a tree sticking out of your head.
The Sun
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My flip, polite persona masks a smouldering and wrathy incredulity as I learn that another revivalist is stepping up to accept officialdom's accolade.
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Tobacco, or some stronger leaf, smoulders in the ashtray.
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It was simply smouldering, the flames long burned out leaving nothing but some charcoal what was once wood.
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The dispute is still smouldering, five years after the negotiations began.
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The fire was started by a smouldering cigarette.
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I gave the car a wide berth as it began to smoulder, and hailed a taxi.
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The incense will slowly smoulder, filling the room with its delightful fragrance.
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A shrine where saints and scholars met And held aloft the torch of truth Lies smouldering 'neath fair Brabant's skies, A ruined heapwar's prize in sooth 1 The Pilates of Teutonic blood That fired the brand and flung the bomb Now wash their hands of evil deed, While all the world stands ghast and dumb.
Belgium and the Belgians
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His railway, finished in 1837, was an immediate success, even though the native birchwood used as fuel produced showers of sparks and complaints by smouldering passengers.
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Hatred smouldered beneath a polite surface.
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The mat was smouldering where the burning log had fallen.
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By the fading light of their smouldering fires they resolved to do as she had said.
The Gods of Asgard
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The floor was of concrete, lime and sand; on the open hearth -- pronounced 'airth' -- sods of turf cut from the moor and oak branches were smouldering under the chimney crook.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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The Captain displays an uncanny ability to sweat and smoulder simultaneously, and boasts a command of German that goes above and beyond the conversational.
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She smoulders in a suit (which is probably more YSL than Chanel, but whatevs).
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He takes to the catwalk again for a rendition of Defiant Pose done at length and full speed: Watching the Houses of Parliament reduced to a smouldering ruin made Terry and Joyce feel horny as hell.
Paul McRandle: Westway Ho! Stewart Home at Performa 11
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In the morning my father drove us slowly past the still smouldering wreckage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dark, dandyish, dashing, brooding – it combined an extraordinary mixture of male arrogance and almost feminine beauty, emphasised by vivid clothes, peacock hairstyles and smouldering glances.
Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review
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How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark.
Michelle Paver - An interview with author
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An earlier cigarette butt smouldered in the grate.
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And the 34-year-old also seems to veer towards women with long dark tresses and smouldering brown eyes.
The Sun
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They didn't see it was a struggle they must lose in the end, and so for twenty-five years the scrappy, unorganised warfare had smouldered on, with every now and then a real dust-up to stoke the growing hatred and mistrust on both sides.
Isabelle
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His anger had retreated but he could still feel it smouldering within.
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After the conflict had been smouldering for many years, it flared up again in August this year in a border dispute between Abkhazia and Georgia over the Kodori Gorge.
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She tipped her head back to gaze up at him, seeing the smouldering satisfaction in his half-closed eyes.
Western Man
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This could lead to a smouldering of the pump and an engine compartment or vehicle fire.
Times, Sunday Times
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Melanie Griffith seems to smoulder with sexuality.
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Newspapers around the world showed the picture above of the Paraguayan policeman trying desperately to revive the baby he rescued from the smouldering supermarket.
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She smouldered in a floor length gem-encrusted crimson gown and Tango-coloured mohair evening wrap, while the model modelled the flimsiest of fur halter tops.
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In fact, the behaviour of the janissaries bred a smouldering resentment which erupted from time to time into acts of armed resistance.
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I just can't seem to get enough of his smouldering eyes.
The Sun
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Here the chicken in the pollo con mole is very tender in its chocolatey, smoky, smouldering mole.
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And the 34-year-old also seems to veer towards women with long dark tresses and smouldering brown eyes.
The Sun
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Once she had written that his eyes were "smouldering '.
Bomber
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The two-storey building was still smouldering last night.
Times, Sunday Times
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She returned in triumph to show us the sea bass cooked, sitting on a still smouldering bed, before taking it away again to be divided into portions.
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He sensed a smouldering hostility towards him.
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The mat was smouldering where the burning log had fallen.
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In the volatile south, tensions between Uzbek and Kyrgyz continue to smoulder.
Uzbek minority still faces persecution as Kyrgyzstan goes to polls
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Samos and the shady hills of Ida, in Scyros and Phocaea and the high hill of Autocane and fair-lying Imbros and smouldering Lemnos and rich Lesbos, home of Macar, the son of Aeolus, and Chios, brightest of all the isles that lie in the sea, and craggy Mimas and the heights of Corycus and gleaming Claros and the sheer hill of Aesagea and watered Samos and the steep heights of Mycale, in
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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His recent cuttings files have, lest we forget, taken in two splurges of coverage that only heightened the sense of smouldering hostility.
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She was a dark girl with almost perfect features and huge, smouldering eyes.
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I am almost tempted to say you could smell his brain smouldering.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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The little man was left in the centre of the room, his deep eyes smouldering upon the backs of the retreating members, his thumb and finger raised to the turncock of the metre.
The Island Pharisees
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The Parisian detachments marching to Lyons left a trail of pillaged and closed churches, and smouldering bonfires of ornaments, vestments, and holy pictures all along their route.
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Seen by day and by night, they read like the pit of hell shot with flashes of fire and filled with smouldering, acrid smoke.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The building was left charred and smouldering, its facade riddled with holes from bullets and heavy weaponry.
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Others, smouldering underground in carbon-rich peatland, are said to be almost impossible to completely extinguish.
Times, Sunday Times
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The parcel goes in, the smouldering logs are raked back over it, and the fire is rekindled with fresh wood.
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A flame seizes the smouldering ruin, and bites On stubborn stalks that crackle as they resist.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then the "$8.00" began to smoulder under his lids again, and he returned himself to servitude.
Chapter 25
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He said backhoes and excavators were being utilised to help put out the blaze, which has been smouldering for more than four days.
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The fire's out, but it's still smouldering.
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By the time we got there, the flats were a heap of smouldering rubble.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of us spend our whole lives fighting the most visible fires, while leaving the most important ones to smoulder unnoticed.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Even Wayne Rooney, who like all top players has "a picture in his head" – a three-second flash-forward of leaping possibilities – seems against Barcelona to have a picture only of looming disaster and catastrophic accident, flying around the pitch in a psychic panic looking for smouldering plug sockets, unsnuffed candles, ladders that wobble.
Barcelona are just as processed as the premier burger on the menu | Barney Ronay
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He yelps in pain, and stamps out the smouldering portion of fabric with his foot.
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Three crews were brought in to bring the barn blaze under control and the smouldering hay was transported out of the barn on tractors to spread on nearby fields.
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In the flat bottom of his canoe a fire smoulders under a clay pot full of red palm oil.
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Heavy velvet curtains hung on the long wall by the stairwell, framing a tall stained glass window which depicted a smouldering volcano.
DESPERADOES
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Even when the water cannon finally beat back the flames, timbers smoked and embers smouldered until rain finally fell.
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Seen by day and by night, they read like the pit of hell shot with flashes of fire and filled with smouldering, acrid smoke.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The two-storey building was still smouldering last night.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two-storey building was still smouldering last night.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four pumps from North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service were at Fylingdales Moor helping to finally put out the fire, which has raged and smouldered for five days.
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He's holding a bundle of smouldering incense and chanting, dressed in a baggy white shirt and trousers, topped with a gold cap.
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You can picture the rugged terrain of rocky beaches and stony slopes with ancient smouldering volcanoes standing guard over antique vines.
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A number of buildings around the Parliament were still smouldering today.
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Four pumps from North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service were at Fylingdales Moor helping to finally put out the fire, which has raged and smouldered for five days.
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4 Enrolled in flames, and smouldering dreariment, dreariment > gloom
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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Fires on the tile floors were still smouldering as we toured the area.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hundreds of houses have been destroyed and swaths of countryside reduced to smouldering stumps.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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One section of the factory's main exterior wall had already collapsed, leaving a pile of smouldering rubble.
Times, Sunday Times
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Things that even in better writing only smouldered, flare up here in full force.
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By Sunday morning more than 300,000 buildings had disappeared and two-thirds of the city were reduced to smouldering ashes.
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You are looking at yourself on screen but need to look past that smouldering pout and see if there's a tree sticking out of your head.
The Sun
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Japanese hug to themselves and hang over smaller stoves, called hibachi, metal vessels containing a handful of smouldering charcoal.
Peeps at Many Lands: Japan
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Along the way, we passed a fire fighter using a hose to soak smouldering roots with water.
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The fire smouldering behind Ertmanis' eyes when playing the taunted Pishuk is balanced perfectly by the collected regality of Mackenzie King.
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By the time we got there, the flats were a heap of smouldering rubble.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the conflict had been smouldering for many years, it flared up again in August this year in a border dispute between Abkhazia and Georgia over the Kodori Gorge.
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This book is fascinating not because of exploding bombs and smouldering passions, but because of the perplexing subtleties it offers about a life often judged uninteresting.
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The allies will leave a smouldering powder keg and a region that is more dangerous than ever.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alexander watched the twin red-hot points of fire smoulder in the figure's flesh, but to his amazement, the wound healed before his eyes.
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I just can't seem to get enough of his smouldering eyes.
The Sun
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The reforms added fuel to the already smouldering social tension in the countryside.
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Others use optical detectors, which seem to respond more quickly to smoke from smouldering fires such as those involving upholstered furniture.
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A large part of the Paradise Hotel was reduced to rubble and the rest was reduced to a smouldering shell.
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A flame seizes the smouldering ruin, and bites On stubborn stalks that crackle as they resist.
Times, Sunday Times
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His body is old, but hatred smoulders in his eyes.
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We worked dawn to dusk piling up a huge bonfire that would still be smouldering the next weekend.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rest is a dark drift of smouldering purple, hanging in the air like smoke from a pyre of burning shoe-gazers.
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the smoulder suddenly became a blaze
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The first thing I had to do was photograph the interior of my bungalow before the air got hazy with the smoke from the smouldering mosquito-repellent coils.
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By that time I'd crossed a lot of railway tracks and the fervour of pursuit had been reduced to smouldering embers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Peg sat rigid her basket on her lap, knitting forgotten, keeping in check the smouldering anger inside her.
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The dry grass of the veldt, which is always catching fire, was burning between us and the Boers; long lines of low smouldering fire, eating their way slowly along, and sending volumes of smoke drifting downward, obscuring the view.
With Rimington
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Yesterday the authorities began to clear away the burned-out vehicles from around the tower blocks in Clichy-sous-Bois, but resentment smoulders.
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Hundreds of houses have been destroyed and swaths of countryside reduced to smouldering stumps.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I was still a child, I discovered a thought that resonated strongly with me: "It is better to shine brightly and then burn out than to slowly smoulder aimlessly.
Khodorkovsky Unabridged
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By the fading light of their smouldering fires they resolved to do as she had said.
The Gods of Asgard
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This book is fascinating not because of exploding bombs and smouldering passions, but because of the perplexing subtleties it offers about a life often judged uninteresting.
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The firefight left palm and pomegranate groves smouldering, and large craters in the ground on the outskirts of the town.
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They exchange a smouldering look before she cycles away, apparently out of reach.
Times, Sunday Times
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Peering into the kitchen, they saw the cooking fire, still smouldering, with its cauldron of soup, coagulated and cold.
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His smouldering gaze met mine, and he gave me an answer, voice low and soft.
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Mr McDowell said afterwards a simple mistake had caused the fire after a child carried a portable television into the kitchen and left it on top of a cooker where it began to smoulder before catching fire.
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Others go inward, smouldering with resentment.
Times, Sunday Times
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His reading light fell onto his mattress the other night and smouldered a hole through it.
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It would be only four years before the broadcasting of radio programmes swept across America like a smouldering fire that had suddenly burst into flame.
SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution
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We worked dawn to dusk piling up a huge bonfire that would still be smouldering the next weekend.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two managers' heads must keep appearing in great, looming opposition: the doe-eyed baldie against the silver‑fox cad, suggestive of some kind of epic chess fight between these smouldering classical deities.
Ten ways to satisfy your constant craving for El Clásico | Barney Ronay
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His unconsummated relationship with the milkwoman, played with a smouldering air by Barbara Flynn, was a metaphor for all his missed opportunities.
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As I was walking back the last night it there was the remains of a pallet smouldering in the smoke.
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By the fading light of their smouldering fires they resolved to do as she had said.
The Gods of Asgard
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You can picture the rugged terrain of rocky beaches and stony slopes with ancient smouldering volcanoes standing guard over antique vines.
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Others go inward, smouldering with resentment.
Times, Sunday Times
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They had revived under his smouldering regard, and I guessed she was having delicious shivers at the thought of him sweeping her off at his saddlebow and having his wicked will of her by the shores of Gitchee-Gununee.
Isabelle
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For pretty much the entire gig he hangs one-handed off his microphone, wreathed in smoke, a smouldering cig between his fingers.
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Underneath the thatch it was a roaring blaze but on top it was smouldering.
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Cid took a deep draw, then blew out the blue grey smoke, his eyes smouldering.
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You can picture the rugged terrain of rocky beaches and stony slopes with ancient smouldering volcanoes standing guard over antique vines.
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A sighingly lovely covey of youths stares at the cartography with a smouldering incomprehension.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the flat bottom of his canoe a fire smoulders under a clay pot full of red palm oil.
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Cid took a deep draw, then blew out the blue grey smoke, his eyes smouldering.
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Although Mr Straw's visit seemed successful with Iran's political leaders, subsequent harangues by the country's ‘spiritual leaders’ show their old hatreds still smoulder.
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In the morning my father drove us slowly past the still smouldering wreckage.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was no note, only a pile of dirty laundry and the smouldering remains of a meth lab attracting the attention of the local constabulary.
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And no matter how hard she squints her eyes, Danica Patrick cannot 'smoulder'.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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I also uploaded the userpic I've used here as one of my photos - as it is obviously my smouldering wicked temptress photo. * chortle chortle* Actually, that stare is something James should be familiar with, as I think I used it quite a bit during a certain fateful night in Klute.
*falls about laughing*
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Firefighters spent more than eight hours at the scene, damping down the smouldering straw and attempting to discover how the blaze started.
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He has what writers of romantic fiction would call smouldering good looks combined with a steely personality that warns you not to get too close.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.
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Even when the water cannon finally beat back the flames, timbers smoked and embers smouldered until rain finally fell.
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The incense will slowly smoulder, filling the room with its delightful fragrance.
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As I was walking back the last night it there was the remains of a pallet smouldering in the smoke.
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His anger had retreated but he could still feel it smouldering within.
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Team it with kohl like the models at Pucci for a smouldering, shimmering eye.
The Sun
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The night had been long and cold and the smouldering fire at the front of the camp was burning its final cinders around midday.
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With a smouldering disdain which could quickly turn to bloody-mindedness, the rams kept their composure, even though the odd knobbly bits on their foreheads were all that remained of horns and pride.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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His body is old, but hatred smoulders in his eyes.
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Sacrificing plot clarity for wisecracking dialogue and smouldering seduction the producers removed a big chunk of explanation in favour of more Bogart-Bacall smooch time, the definitive Chandler detective movie is still wildly enjoyable.
This week's new films
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A number of buildings around the Parliament were still smouldering today.
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Three crews were brought in to bring the barn blaze under control and the smouldering hay was transported out of the barn on tractors to spread on nearby fields.
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It was evident that the German airmen had used the smouldering fires of Saturday's raids to guide them, for the attacks were directed at the same area - London's dockland.
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She said the strong southeaster which has fanned the flames over the past two days was set to continue, and there was a constant danger that smouldering coals in areas where flames had been extinguished, would flare up again.
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So there was a tricky ex and an officer doing smouldering looks across the camp kitchen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seen by day and by night, they read like the pit of hell shot with flashes of fire and filled with smouldering, acrid smoke.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It was simply smouldering, the flames long burned out leaving nothing but some charcoal what was once wood.
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As ever it is the slow smouldering songs that are most effective, with piano driven ‘The Dance’ one of those tumbling broody ballads that nobody does better.
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Smokes pointed out the Momotombo volcano, smouldering broodily on the distant skyline.
DESPERADOES
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Yet the embers were smouldering.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the others seemed a little flat and unfocused, with the singer straining to reach shrill highs and smouldering lows.
Times, Sunday Times
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Almost any argument can be made without lapsing into bad taste - but one needs to keep an ear especially open to language when the rubble is still smouldering and more than 5,000 loved ones are still missing.
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But the smouldering bed linen would have given off cyanide fumes which, in addition to the alcohol, would have confused and disorientated Mr Cartledge, Mr Hinchliff concluded.
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It was very like commuting with a bit of close-up smouldering, but stretched over two nights.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was very like commuting with a bit of close-up smouldering, but stretched over two nights.
Times, Sunday Times
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His smouldering gaze met mine, and he gave me an answer, voice low and soft.
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His smouldering temptresses were immensely influential.
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Hatred smouldered beneath a polite surface.
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Firefighters spent more than eight hours at the scene, damping down the smouldering straw and attempting to discover how the blaze started.
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Spellbound they crouched in the black and smouldering ashes of the spinifex, mouths open and eyes staring, and then with one terrific yell away they ran, dodging and doubling until a somewhat bushy beefwood tree seemed to offer them means of escape.
Spinifex and Sand
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And the whole town smoulders damply under a haze of burnt burger, singed sausage, and evaporated candy floss, all slightly sticky and redolent of the smell of pink bubble gum.
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He has what writers of romantic fiction would call smouldering good looks combined with a steely personality that warns you not to get too close.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alexander watched the twin red-hot points of fire smoulder in the figure's flesh, but to his amazement, the wound healed before his eyes.
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Several hours after the crash, the building still was smouldering, with black smoke hanging in the air.
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Cigarettes are designed to smoulder, to burn slowly.
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See how smouldering you look.
Times, Sunday Times
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See how smouldering you look.
Times, Sunday Times
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Peg sat rigid her basket on her lap, knitting forgotten, keeping in check the smouldering anger inside her.
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The sufferings she has had to endure, are, she says, beyond compare; the poems which she writes breathe a withering passion, a smouldering despair, an agony of spirit that would melt the soul of a drayman, were he to read them.
Mrs. Perkins's Ball
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When we reached the university a few minutes after the blasts, it was still smouldering.
Times, Sunday Times
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But despite her lacklustre performance in the jungle, after seeing these smouldering pics any guy would become her fan again.
The Sun
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The fire was started by a smouldering cigarette.
