smolders
- present tense form of smolder (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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In Kim Eunho’s 1927 ink and color painting on silk, “Woman Reading the Fortune of the Day,” a hostess in traditional hanbok dress whiles away her break with gaming tiles as a cigarette smolders nearby.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
Elliot smolders, barely contained by a cravat, whether blocking the path when Anne is on a walk with her family, or entering a room.
From Salon • Jul. 24, 2022
While the first hour of this “Fire” smolders like an unusual domestic drama, pivotal disasters bring the lovers crashing down to earth — literally.
From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2022
Rooney Mara, as a carny who’s not quite entirely slipped to the dark side, smolders quietly; you’re never sure what she’s thinking but you can’t look away.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2021
The trees seethe and the house smolders, and standing in the gravel of the driveway, the daylight nearly finished, the locksmith has an unsettling thought: Someone might be coming for us.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
