smudge

Example Sentences

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While we followed the police, we could see the boat – a thin black smudge on a milky sea – to our left.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2025

I saw Trevor around the gym for months — scattered tattoos and black tank top with a cute smudge of climbing chalk on their ears.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2024

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

He cast one glance up at Constance—a red smudge on the hilltop, jumping up and down and waving furiously—and then he and Kate flung themselves down the other side of the rise, out of sight.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart