smudge

Example Sentences

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One woman walked wordlessly through the neighborhood, wafting a smudge stick of burning sage.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

I got a few distant glimpses during the first few years I lived here, a gray-green smudge on the horizon.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2024

At church services across the country, clergy members will smudge crosses on parishioners’ foreheads, murmuring, “Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2024

She remembers one such occasion: "The producers made me put water on my eyes and smudge my mascara… and made it look like I was crying. That was a total set-up."

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024

He pressed until there was a clear smudge of his fingerprints.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova