smudge
Example Sentences
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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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I thought of my school shirt, with its faint smudges from Mawuli’s fingers.
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His skin in the lamplight looked gray, and his eyes had purple smudges beneath them.
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She wipes a smudge of dirt from Marion’s nose and scrubs lipstick from my teeth with her finger.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.