smudge
Example Sentences
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Rolled-up sleeves and charcoal smudges on his nose and elbow, hair wild and raked through.
From Literature
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"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
I tried lighting a smudge in a tin can in the middle of the canoe as I paddled—which worked for mosquitoes—but it didn’t bother the flies at all.
From Literature
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The newspaper is so wrinkled and smudged it’s probably not clear enough.
From Literature
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The Mallons’ house was a black smudge in the fog, the stone walls sleeping, the worn path quiet as we tiptoed over it.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.