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

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 remembered the green smudge and the creature, whatever it was, with its terrible fin, rising above her.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder