Sentence examples similar to smears of ash from inspiring English sources
But Somayaji, a balding, round-faced man with a salt-and-pepper beard and three stripes of ash smeared on his forehead as a reminder of life's transience, is neither banker nor businessman nor high-tech entrepreneur.
A semi-solid that melts in all directions and smears like ash on paper, ice cream teases the mouth and demands full jaw opening, at the penalty of temporary culinary mustache.
The sadhus, many of them naked, dreadlocked and smeared in ash, ran to the river amid heavy security.
An Aghori guru smears the ashes of cremated humans on his face.
The disorderly and largely decentralized White Army, christened as such for their practice of smearing white ash on their bodies to repel insects, was formed (a term used graciously here) around 1991 with the ostensible purpose of fighting off cattle raids from the Dinka and Murlee.
The volcano, located deep in the Sahara desert in the Fezzan region of southwestern Libya, appears as a smear of dark basaltic ash and tephra that contrasts sharply with the light-coloured sand of the Sahara.
He was also a chain smoker with beige teeth and a navy wool jacket smeared with ash.
Flecks of ash floated over the surface.
"Then chunks of ash started falling.
