Exempel på smouldering

• They did not have brass pots, so they used mostly unglazed pottery which cannot stand 'any fire fiercer than the smouldering one given by dung'.

• The smouldering controversy was recently inflamed again by revisionist historians.

• The production suggests smouldering rather than explosive affect.

• It is now generally accepted that they represent early stages of acute myeloid leukaemia, a fact reflected in the commonly used terms 'preleukaemia' or 'smouldering leukaemia'.

• Whatever the cause, the burning resentment of the father was deep and lasting, since up to eight years later it was still smouldering in the pages of his will.

• I understand that when the heap was last visited it was found that the flames had been quenched and only a slight smouldering was visible.

• This order raises the apparently dormant but hotly smouldering question of the disposal of such land.

• The source of a flame must be a smouldering cigarette or an electrical short circuit.

• I beg them not to ignite the powder keg that is smouldering in the countryside.

• By the end of this year the great majority of mattresses on sale in this country will be resistant to ignition by smouldering cigarettes.

• Then, when this happened, at once the fire which had been smouldering unseen for at least two years burst forth in a destructive flame.

• I was on the scene within a few hours and saw the burnt buildings still smouldering, the broken windows and the looted shops.

• All of these issues have been smouldering for years.

• It is not a sudden convulsion that we have gone into; it has been smouldering for a long time, and we must now face it.

• I would not want to do anything to stir up the smouldering embers of party venom which still exist.