Sentence examples for a smudge on from inspiring English sources

She arrived with a smudge on her cheek, and at one point, leaning over in the tank top, she inadvertently flashed Wald, but her artlessness was so winning that he signed her on the spot.

We poked around his robing room, eavesdropped on his weary family, came in close on his crown and found a smudge on it just in time for one of his pages to spit on it and wipe it off with his sleeve.

The closing also removed a smudge on the company's reputation: Voestalpine was one of several businesses fined by the German Federal Cartel Office this year and last for fixing track prices.

A dirty camera lens is one obvious thing to check, as a smudge on the glass can throw off the camera's ability to automatically focus.

You'll never look at a smudge on a window in the same way again.

The bus sustained no more than a smudge on its side.

Some crime devotees may find the novel short on twists and deaths; Ng is most impressive in the less generic novelistic skill of the piercing detail – a single stray novelty sock on the floor of a teenager's room, a toe smudge on a wall where a young couple made love decades before in a bedroom they had just painted.

Draw a rather large smudge on one of your fingers.

It was just outside, hanging out in the blustery spring air, a nondescript smudge on a tree that became a nondescript smudge in the sky.

It's just a shadowy smudge on an abstract gold field in a diptych by Noah Davis, and absent altogether in abstract paintings by Kianja Strobert, Sienna Shields and Brenna Youngblood.

At the age of 42 he is tubby and, as a sign of his deep faith, has a large zabiba — a dark smudge on his forehead born of rubbing his head repeatedly on a prayer mat.