Sentence examples for dark smear from inspiring English sources

Most were in short skirts or tight dresses, and even in that blue shadow I could see the dark smear of their lipstick and eyeliner.

MAb 3EB7 had a nonspecific interaction with the DNA probe (data not shown) that resulted in the dark smear below the supershift band.

The chicken muscle agrin fragment, which served as positive control bound efficiently to dystroglycan, appearing as a dark smear caused by the migration behaviour of the highly glycosylated distroglycan (Fig. 9, lane 1), while the neuronal isoform gave a very weak signal at the dystroglycan protein core size of approximately 200 kD (lane 2).

Be sure the dark smear is actually tarnish and not the base metal beginning to show through.

Though wetlands ecologists express relief that relatively little of the marsh was heavily oiled, some marshy areas like Bay Jimmy off Barataria Bay still bear dark smears, patches denuded of marsh grass and the telltale brown ribbon of oil at the water line.

But the central arch where the imam stands in front of his congregation is covered in blast marks and dark smears.

To teach awareness of the environment and help her students understand what their clients are dealing with, she asks them to explore a living space with earplugs, or glasses with dark lenses smeared with petroleum jelly to simulate macular degeneration.

I can imagine, in fact, walking through an Old New York, looking at the dark, greedy smears left by floodwaters at high tide on the fronts of brownstones and banks and divining from them the dates when Manhattan died by inches.

The kids were standing by the playhouse — which itself was falling to decrepitude, dark-gray smears of mildew growing on its fake logs — pretending to be a mom and a dad themselves, although they were a bit too old and self-conscious for playacting.

Some darker bands will smear makeup, usually black, from their lips to the side of their face.

The performance artist Karen Finley, who achieved notoriety by smearing dark chocolate over her naked body, is wallowing in golden honey these days.