smudge

Example Sentences

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"Intensity mapping is like viewing the same scene through a smudged plane window: you get a blurrier picture, but you capture all the light and not just the brightest spots."

From Science Daily

I tried lighting a smudge in a tin can in the middle of the canoe as I paddled—which worked for mosquitoes—but it didn’t bother the flies at all.

From Literature

Her dress is loose on her, her hair is thin and wispy, her lipstick slightly smudged.

From Literature

The Mallons’ house was a black smudge in the fog, the stone walls sleeping, the worn path quiet as we tiptoed over it.

From Literature

My white shirt was smudged and dirty from sitting in the soot, and I brushed myself off and walked over to look out the window.

From Literature