Sentence examples for smoldering for from inspiring English sources

Last week, workers in New York City finally extinguished the fires that have been smoldering for almost 100 days at Ground Zero.

But firefighters said it appeared that the flames had been smoldering for some time before they were called, and had filled the one-bedroom apartment with smoke.

Adrienne Cooper, an American-born singer, teacher and curator of Yiddish music who was a pioneer in the effort to keep the embers of that language smoldering for newer generations, died on Sunday in Manhattan.

His murder ignited a tinderbox of tensions between Indians and whites that had been smoldering for 55 years over competing land claims (including disputes over the grazing of colonial livestock on hunting and fishing grounds), interracial insensitivities, and English cultural encroachment on Native America.

The hacking scandal had been smoldering for years, but ignited in recent weeks after assertions that hacking on behalf of The News of the World had interfered with the investigation into the 2002 murder of a 13-year-old girl, Milly Dowler.

When Mr. Draper asked the president how he had reacted when he learned that the policy was being reversed, Mr. Bush replied, "Yeah, I can't remember, I'm sure I said, "This is the policy, what happened?' " Mr. Bremer indicated that he had been smoldering for months as other administration officials had distanced themselves from his order.

The underground fire smoldered for weeks.

The building continued to smolder for two days.

Experts say peat bog fires can smolder for years.

The City challenge will smolder for the rest of his time.

Dozens of emergency vehicles surrounded the wreckage, which smoldered for hours.