Sentence examples for smoldering building from inspiring English sources

"One of my friends told me my house burned," he said yesterday outside the smoldering building.

Only as villagers and police officers descended on the smoldering building did the scale become apparent.

He went back into the smoldering building, "fumbling," he said, "for anyone I could get".

For most of us, who cannot perform medical triage or help shift debris from smoldering building sites, what needs doing most may not be obvious.

"We have a beautiful relationship with the city of Elizabeth, with the Police Department and the community," he said near the collapsed and smoldering building.

There is, of course, the requisite corny montage of the artists recording in the studio, but the clichés are forgotten once footage appears of tearful firefighters, emerging from the smoldering building and being embraced by locals.

There, he was able to capture images of the smoldering buildings across the river.

Soldiers and emergency workers picked through the rubble of nearly 40 smoldering buildings and the abandoned encampments of antigovernment protesters.

The Rodney King video is played repeatedly, and there is a wide selection of news clippings of jubilant looters and smoldering buildings.

As it echoed down a highway that straddles the continent from suburban New Jersey to San Francisco, the national conversation about war in Iraq was dominated this week by images of smoldering buildings in New York and Washington.

The eerie images of smoldering buildings, smashed storefronts, closed-off streets and angry, teeming throngs are a visually eloquent reminder that a riot, in the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., "is the language of the unheard". What makes 'Detroit' vital is not that its images are new or revelatory, but rather that Bigelow and Boal clarify those images into art.