smudge
Example Sentences
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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
I saw Trevor around the gym for months — scattered tattoos and black tank top with a cute smudge of climbing chalk on their ears.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 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
Until now, Dinkinesh’s only been ”an unresolved smudge in the best telescopes,” Southwest Research Institute’s Hal Levison, the lead scientist, said in a statement.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2023
Anya nodded and began reading, tracing along the words with the pointer so her fingers wouldn’t smudge the aging ink.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.