Sentence examples for be smouldering from inspiring English sources

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be smouldering

verb

To smother; to suffocate; to choke.

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A load on a lorry on board a train en route from the UK to France was found to be smouldering, a Eurotunnel source said.

The council also said although the rubbish was sodden, it could still be smouldering so could not be put straight to landfill.

Murray summed up the mood when he echoed the widespread excitement at seeing such great names back in the game, while hinting that some old fires might still be smouldering.

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It's smouldering".

But discontent had been smouldering for decades.

His work in the film is smouldering, witty, blase.

Here he is, smouldering angrily at the New World Order.

And yet again British Columbia is smouldering with grievance, and not just against its American competitors.

The ECBreally is fiddling while Athens and Madrid burn and other capital cities are smouldering.

(Lammy did. He was on the street while the embers were smouldering).

A revolt against the orthodoxy has been smouldering for years and now seems to have gone critical.

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