smoulder
verb (used without object)
was smouldering
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past progressiveof smoulder.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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A fire was smouldering in his brown eyes that would have made Ted Sandyman step backwards, if he had seen it.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
In the chimney a fire was smouldering, and the remains of a meal lay scattered over a box that did duty as a table.
From The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall by Edward Stratemeyer
The last red was smouldering beyond the lost, thin-wooded hills of this interior.
From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
A man had come out of the building and proceeded toward a fire that was smouldering close by.
From Woodcraft or, How a Patrol Leader Made Good by Alan Douglas
He had come and gone a veritable firebrand, and the hot trail he had left behind him was smouldering in a manner unhealthy for the cattle-thieves.
From The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country by Ridgwell Cullum
