How to use smolder in a sentence

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• The wintering grasses smoldered with a reddish-browh hue, similar to the patches on the bird's coverlet feathers.2021, Peter Cavanagh, “9. Cranes”, in 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight, →ISBN, page 218. From the entry coverlet
• Hanging on the center smoke pole high above the small smoldering fire hung two beadeye dolls.2015, Barend Van Kimball, Tuck and Nip: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry smoke pole
• He made him a little smoldering pocket of punk to light the fuses and waited.2001, William W. Johnstone, War of the Mountain Man, page 116. From the entry punk
• The look he gave her was smoldering, showing her that he found her attractive.1998, Cathie Linz, Too Sexy for Marriage, Harlequin, published 1998, →ISBN. From the entry eye sex
• Firefighters remained at the scene all day to prevent the smoldering remains from re-igniting.1979 December 15, John Kyper, “Fire Guts 'Rush' Warehouse”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 21, page 3. From the entry reignite
• The eyes would be of the smoldering type, showing the green-eyed monster beneath.1916, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Bab, a Sub-Deb. From the entry green-eyed monster
• It shrieked and writhed as the heat seared its flesh, dropping its spear to bat at the smoldering wounds.2013 April, Chris A. Jackson, “A Surprise Engagement”, in Pirate’s Honor (Pathfinder Tales), Paizo, →ISBN, pages 113–114. From the entry cecaelia
• There’s an Indian method called dhungar, which involves setting tiny bowls of smoldering charcoal within covered casseroles of cooked food.2007 January 24, Dana Bowen, “Smokers Welcome: Try This at Home”, in New York Times. From the entry dhungar
• The very walls were warping from heat near the craft, metal panels peeling apart and some of the exposed wiring smoldering or outright aflame.2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 15, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books…. From the entry chiaroscuro
• She grabbed my ciggy from out between my lippies and lit hers with my heater, handing me the manhandled ciggy back, bent and smoldering.2008, Kevin Pecore, My Iron Lung, KMDS Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 54. From the entry lippy
• Was it Uncle Richard’s fault that he looked like a Spanish Grande, that women rarely could resist his melancholy brown eyes smoldering with an indefinable something?2004, Irene Awret, “Part One: Berlin”, in They’ll Have to Catch Me First: An Artist’s Coming of Age in the Third Reich, Madison, Wis.: The…. From the entry grande
• Another is the smoldering radicalism of eternal student Terrence Moses (Marc Ewing, aptly intense), once the family’s tutor, now smitten with Anna and perhaps the clearest-eyed person in the play.2009 July 2, David C. Nichols, “Theater review: ‘The Cherry Orchard’ at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum”, in Los Angeles Times, Los…. From the entry clear-eyed

Meaning of smolder

1. verb To burn slowly, giving off smoke but with little to no flame.
2. verb To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion.
3. verb To exist in a suppressed or hidden state.

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Questions about smolder in a sentence

How do you use smolder in a sentence?

Smolder is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The remains of the bonfire were left to smolder for hours.”

What is a short sentence with smolder?

“The remains of the bonfire were left to smolder for hours.”

What does smolder mean?

Smolder means to burn slowly, giving off smoke but with little to no flame.