smoldering

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  • I saw this on Style.com's website and it nearly made me snort coffee out of my nose.Typically, the smoldering is a hint to turn down the heat on one's flatiron.
  • The dead foliage was smoldering, and the smoke formed layers in the upper reaches of the garden cave. —  The Source of Magic
  • They left behind the smoldering ruins of burnt homes and blackened chimneys still smoldering, the bodies of their innocent victims with heads decapitated lay on the bloodied snow where they had been butchered and scalped by the Sault and Algonquin Indian allies of the French. —  Canada Free Press
  • "It's still smoldering, and they'll be out there today, keeping things cooled." —  seMissourian.com Headlines
  • Sparks from the work got into the sewer and started smoldering, fire officials said. —  WPXI.com - Local News
 

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