Sentence examples for gradually smudged from inspiring English sources

The basic rectangle is maintained, defining the stage, but the inner patterns are gradually smudged by the movements of the dancers; the confetti streaming behind the dancers as the rise from the floor is a lovely effect.

Sometimes, though, the latter can be identified by "tide marks": "you can see a swath of red on a wall that gradually smudges into yellow".

As their feet swooshed across the surface, lines, circles and smears began to appear, gradually spreading to smudge the paper covering the rest of the stage.

Its middle was smudged suggestively.

Brake dust smudged my dress.

Sky and roof smudged into universal gray.

She smudged her home with sage.

The window into her soul was smudged.

Her eyeglasses were a bit smudged.

Words are smudged on the walls.

Prints may be smudged.