smudge

I literally drove to the tattoo shop on Hollywood Boulevard with my arm out the window because I’m so clumsy and I didn’t want to smudge it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The 22-year-old now runs his own business scrubbing every sheet metal curve and interior corner of a vehicle until there isn’t a smudge or crumb left.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

You can distort a timeline, smudge the facts, and leave others out to pursue one angle in favor of another, depending on your agenda.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025

But, against the odds, he found what he hoped for - a brown smudge on the white ice sheet.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024

Normally we’d bring everyone together for a smudge, but the air was dark and the littlest kids were safe on the back porch in rocking chairs with Minerva.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

It’ll leave little silver smudges like a disappointing eyeshadow.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025

If smudges in the sky are your thing, sure, fine.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2024

And the dark smudges of exhaustion below Kravchenko's eyes made him look like he was wearing stage paint.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2024

“They told me to go on a computer, but the computers are dirty. People are touching those computers. You can see the smudges, the dark spots. Like they never clean them.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

I thought of my school shirt, with its faint smudges from Mawuli’s fingers.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

A smudged fingerprint on the rear-view mirror has also never been matched.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

Heyward co-hosted a fundraiser with his wife last week where Pratt was smudged with sage before standing in front of a giant amethyst geode to address about 125 people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

"Intensity mapping is like viewing the same scene through a smudged plane window: you get a blurrier picture, but you capture all the light and not just the brightest spots."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026

The man next to Papa Acevedo had a black fingerprint smudged over his face.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

The two women move around the room, burning herbs and shaking shamanic rattles while singing and chanting in a purification ritual known as "smudging".

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2025

For Native people, smudging is the ceremony used for spiritual cleansing or blessing, but not all Indigenous people even use sage to smudge.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2024

This pretty kit contains mountain sage, frankincense, myrrh and white copal resin; a Selenite stick; crystals and a palo santo stick for smudging.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023

Researchers believe these early artists selected charcoal because it was the perfect medium, ideal for the smudging and blending techniques used in cave paintings.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 4, 2023

My dad wandered around to the other side of the car and checked out the view through the driver’s-side window after smudging some frost away with the heel of his hand.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez