smudge

Example Sentences

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His skin in the lamplight looked gray, and his eyes had purple smudges beneath them.

From Literature

She wipes a smudge of dirt from Marion’s nose and scrubs lipstick from my teeth with her finger.

From Literature

I wore a threadbare coat that bore grease stains on the arms, and my cheeks were smudged brown with dirt and grime.

From Literature

Anat was back in the jeans and chunky sweater she’d been wearing, but she still had on the face paint, slightly smudged along the collar of her sweater.

From Literature

The workers’ uniforms are smudged with stains earned underneath a car, wrench in hand.

From Los Angeles Times