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• The dampness in the writing paper caused the ink to spread and smudge.From the entry dampness
• I sprayed a clearcoat over her pastel drawing, so it ought to last many years without smudging.From the entry clearcoat
• I clearcoated her pastel drawing, so it ought to last many years without smudging.From the entry clearcoat
• There is a dirty smudge on this window.From the entry on
• Rain and sweat conspired to smudge her mascara.From the entry conspire
• Its misgivings about immigration have smudged some of the liberal lustre it once had.2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany’s fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd.…. From the entry luster
• Several water smudges and an obvious attempt to wipe them away dotted across the paper.2012, Jim Tuggle, Beyond the Pale, →ISBN. From the entry check-out time
• A faint oystery light smudged the November sky outside the window.2010, Reggie Nadelson, Bloody London, page 215. From the entry oystery
• Touch screens are touched, so oily residues, or smudges, remain on the screen as a side effect.2010 August 9, Adam J. Aviv, Katherine Gibson, Evan Mossop, Matt Blaze, Jonathan M. Smith, “Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens”…. From the entry smudge attack
• In the mood for some maize-on-the-cob, tepees, smudge sticks and Native American flute music?1998 August 7, “Fluting Around”, in Home News Tribune, New Brunswick, N.J., →OCLC, “On the Go” section, page 20, column 7. From the entry maize-on-the-cob
• I told you there were finger print smudges on the underledge of the exhibit.1951, New York Supreme Court, page 469. From the entry underledge
• In the museum, black patches punctuate white oiled surfaces, life smudging through the daunting unintentions to quiet us for good.2016, Richard Lyons, “Montreal Poem”, in Un Poco Loco: Poems, Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Iris Press, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry unintention
• The second option (right-hand page) features a sharp background and a cyclist who appears as a smudge of blur.2014, Albrecht Rissler, Photographic Composition: Principles of Image Design, Rocky Nook, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry blur
• With the sumiye painting any brush-strokes painted over a second time results in a smudge; the life has left it.2013, Osvald Sirén, The Chinese on the Art of Painting. From the entry so is life
• Latent smudges may be usable to infer recently and frequently touched areas of the screen – a form of information leakage.2010 August 9, Adam J. Aviv, Katherine Gibson, Evan Mossop, Matt Blaze, Jonathan M. Smith, “Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens”…. From the entry smudge attack
• Even the Absence was visible: that thumb-sized smudge of starless, galaxyless darkness in the direction where the Andromeda used to lie.2009, Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns, Orion, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry galaxyless
• Now get your paper stump and start smudging.2008, Carrie Stuart Parks, Rick Parks, Secrets To Drawing Realistic Children. From the entry rescribble
• Becca's cheeks were pale, her eyes smudged.2006, Lynn Michaels, Marriage by Design, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 214. From the entry whomper
• One of the most common forms of purification is done with smoke, using some kind of smoking or smudging.2002, Raven Kaldera, Tannin Schwartzstein, The Urban Primitive: Paganism in the Concrete Jungle, page 36. From the entry smudging
• The glow was there now, a citreous smudge on the hardpacked earth below him and to his left.1992, Barbara Hambly, The Magicians of Night. From the entry citreous
• In recent years Nelson has grown a mustache, a tufty brown smudge not much wider than his nose.1990, John Updike, chapter I, in Rabbit at Rest, New York, N.Y.: Random House, published 2010, page 14. From the entry tufty
• Smudge them black, the lion has finished eating the leopard, the stillness is eternal . . . that is my head.1977, Nancy Dean, Myra Stark, In the looking glass: twenty-one modern short stories by women, page 11. From the entry ungloss
• It's rather ghostish to have the road suddenly smudged out, and all the world anywhere, nowhere for you to go.1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock. From the entry ghostish
• A smudge of lampblack is made on his forehead to disfigure him and thus avert the evil eye.1906, James George Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, volume 2, page 261. From the entry lampblack
• But instead of scrapping the highlights I worked so hard for, I’m asking my stylist for a root smudge à la Tate McRae above.2024 September 5, Beth Gillette, “24 Fall Hair Colors Every Celebrity Is Asking for Rn”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry a la
• The earliest reports were typewritten or stippled by a dot-matrix; then smudged, the result of being whipped too quickly from the mouth of an inkjet.2014 September, Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman, chapter 20, in The Golem of Hollywood, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN…. From the entry dot matrix
• Lindsay Noseworth, the diagnosed gamomaniac, would be hit hardest of all, at no more than the first sidelong smudge of Primula's appearance.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1159. From the entry gamomaniac
• Ada's unique Lorelei Underwing had died, paralyzed by some ichneumon that had not been deceived by those clever prominences and fungoid smudges.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 43. From the entry ichneumon
• Through the enormous dust cloud that the army raised the trees of the valley appeared as brown smudges against an ochreish sky.1911, Mary Johnston, The Long Roll. From the entry ochreish
• He would smash his face into the doors at the end of his walks, trying to hasten their opening, and leave his little brown dog-nose smudges at his level.2011, Toni Johnstone, Dogified: A Poodle's Memoir, Tate Publishing, page 121. From the entry dog-nose
• Not much "beautiful dignity" about her now! she thought, looking at her smudged eyes and the tracks her tears had made in carefully applied five and nine.1995, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Marking Time, page 263. From the entry five and nine
• Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging, wear, tear; to hold them up to the light or pick them out of benzine baths in search of watermarks.1929 September 2, “Philatelists”, in Time. From the entry tweeze

Meaning of smudge

1. noun A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
2. noun Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
3. noun A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.

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Questions about smudge in a sentence

How do you use smudge in a sentence?

Smudge is used as a noun and verb. For example: “There was a smudge on the paper.”

What is a short sentence with smudge?

“Becca's cheeks were pale, her eyes smudged.”

What does smudge mean?

Smudge means a blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.