smoulder
verb (used without object)
had smouldered
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past perfectof smoulder.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Doom had fallen; for more than a twelvemonth the ruins had smouldered, and to-day they were but the harmless haunt of bat and badger.
From The Doomsman by Van Tassel Sutphen
The fires of the Puritan faction had smouldered out; those of the Jacobite frenzy had hardly had time to rekindle.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
The embers on the hearth had smouldered so low that they were mere points of light that served to make the gloom deeper and more expressive.
From The Great Cattle Trail by Edward Sylvester Ellis
The fire had smouldered to black ash long ere this, and the chill air which precedes the dawn was creeping into the room.
From The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler
When Thornton spoke again the naked and honest wrath that had smouldered for a year like a banked fire at last leaped into untrammelled blazing.
From The Roof Tree by Lee F. Conrey
