smudge

Example Sentences

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One woman walked wordlessly through the neighborhood, wafting a smudge stick of burning sage.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 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

Nhamo rubbed her eyes; the smudge didn’t go away.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer