smudge

Example Sentences

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In truth, there have been enough fingerprints on UCLA’s resurgence to leave countless smudge marks.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 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

Until now, Dinkinesh’s only been ”an unresolved smudge in the best telescopes,” Southwest Research Institute’s Hal Levison, the lead scientist, said in a statement.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2023

When the team marked them with pink powder, the birds showed no inclination to inspect or touch the smudge in front of the mirror the way that Dr. Gallup’s chimps did.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2023

Right now she was even wearing makeup: a tiny smear of brown over her eyes, black on her eyelashes, a smudge of red on her cheeks.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix