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

You can distort a timeline, smudge the facts, and leave others out to pursue one angle in favor of another, depending on your agenda.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2025

But, against the odds, he found what he hoped for - a brown smudge on the white ice sheet.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 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

She’d text a lipstick smudge onto my cheek if she could.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera