- A smudge of blood marked the pure whiteness of the paper and then the force made Kerri write the letter I and then the letter D and then O and she eventually spelt the words I, don't and only.
- So, Alex came in and helped me clean all of the smudges and smears off (also, my chin, neck, arm).
- The walls were a crisp, clean white with no smudges or marks anywhere at all and a deep blue carpet covered the floor.
- The lower smudge of light is from the nucleus at the centre of the Andromeda galaxy.
- The patent illustrations are similarly greatly improved, beautiful, with clear lines, and missing the distracting streaks and smudges which are so often found on patent images.
- The outpost sat on the horizon, a black smudge with streaks of pink and orange in the sky behind it.
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- She wiped the tears away, being careful not to smudge the ocher make-up from her eyes, a tip she had taken from the old Egyptians.
- She wiped her nose and smudged her eye liner and hated herself.
- Taking her hand stained with red she smudged blood across both her cheeks.
- My eyes are very deep-set, and become more so the older I get, so anything that smudges, flakes or clumps drives me mad.
- For the first time in my life, I couldn't care less that my mascara was smudging, or that my eyes would be all red and puffy.
- I knew I must've looked terrible, my mascara smudged, my eyes swollen and red, my nose all runny.
- The forms smudge and blur, become lost in diffuse clouds of tone; the images are elusive - inviting speculative engagement.
- The ink was smudged and smeared beyond recognition.
- The unfortunate problem with the pages is that the ink easily smears and smudges.
Late Middle English (as a verb in the sense 'soil, stain'): of unknown origin. The noun dates from the late 18th century.
Words that rhyme with smudgeadjudge, begrudge, bludge, budge, drudge, fudge, grudge, judge, misjudge, nudge, pudge, sludge, trudge
Mid 18th century (in the sense 'suffocating smoke'): of unknown origin; related to obsolete smudge 'cure herring by smoking', of obscure origin.
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