Sentence examples for be smudged from inspiring English sources

"But if I were a health care company, I might be worried my image would be smudged when a company known for not-healthy products used my name".

One at a time, we went into the front room to be smudged with sage on the wrestling mats by a woman in her sixties with the silver hair and beatific smile of a Latina Mrs. Claus.

Mr. Sanchez's case, if less dire or public, is no less chilling a lesson in how easily a person's identity can be smudged in this era of shared databases, and how long it can take to cleanse it -- particularly if, like Mr. Sanchez, he speaks little English and has a minor police record of his own.

While they sounded wonderful in theory – little pots of colour that could be smudged hastily on to cheeks and lips to give the face an effortless-looking polish and flush of good health – I felt that generally (Stila and Becca being the exceptions), they delivered poorly on the lip end of the bargain.

The luminous Ms. McNenny's knobby bare feet may peek out from beneath her cotton work dress and her face may be smudged with dirt, but she is hard put to persuade us to accept her character's self-description of an "ugly overgrown lump of a woman".

Prints may be smudged.

Its middle was smudged suggestively.

The window into her soul was smudged.

Words are smudged on the walls.

The knees of the pajama bottoms were smudged with mud.

How did that man know that his forehead was smudged?