smudge

Example Sentences

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My white shirt was smudged and dirty from sitting in the soot, and I brushed myself off and walked over to look out the window.

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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.

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Then the next wave was under her and the wind was howling and hurtling her toward the smudge of Nim’s island—“Faster than a city train!”

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I flip over the waterfall picture and squint at her smudged handwriting.

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He pressed until there was a clear smudge of his fingerprints.

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