Example sentences for: smouldering

How can you use “smouldering” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He removed a squashed cigarette from somewhere inside it and lit it carefully with the minute, barely smouldering stump of the old one.

  • Seamus Heaney's poem The Little Canticles of Asturias, which appeared in the debut issue of SLATE, contains a mesmerizing image of a "smouldering maw/ of a pile of newspapers lit long ago," fanning "up in the wind, breaking off and away/ in flame-posies, small airborne fire-ships."


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