smoulder
verb (used without object)
has been smouldering
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present perfect progressiveof smoulder (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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The hostility which has been smouldering for a long time in the East and in the West has now burst into bright flames.
From New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? by Various
Well, you wouldn’t believe it, but my curiosity about that girl has been smouldering ever since.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan
Now first do I grasp all the restless desire, That long has been smouldering in me like fire!
From Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans by Anders Orbeck
Sometimes, however, like a fire that has been smouldering under the ashes, the flame of youthful passions blazed up within me.
From Other People's Money by Émile Gaboriau
It has been smouldering for many years, but it is not dead.
From 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Bertram Mitford
