smeared
Example Sentences
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We ate thick slices with cold salted butter — not so much smeared across the crumb as laid on in pale slabs, because patience has never been a prerequisite for breakfast.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Lean and wet and smeared with grass, he introduces himself as Lincoln Hedberg from New Jersey.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
One group inflated a giant disco ball, while another smeared themselves with body paint next to a line of rehearsing dancers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
This included an empty can of energy drink left in the middle of the floor of a clean delivery room - as well as butter "smeared around the top of a birthing pool".
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
She dyed her hair black and this intensified her already severe features, especially her eyebrows, which she smeared on each morning in thick, inky arches.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
