The phrase "smudges over" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe the action of something becoming blurred or unclear. It is often used to describe the movement of a liquid or substance that creates a smudge or blurry mark. One example of using "smudges over" in a sentence could be: "As the ink smeared across the paper, the writing smudges over and becomes illegible." In this sentence, the phrase is used to describe the movement of the ink as it causes the writing to become blurry and indistinct.
Equally, in befriending Syria he smudges over decades of hostile support by Damascus for separatists and leftist terrorists in Turkey.
This results in saucer-shaped smudges over the San Antonio skyline.
The slate-colored eyes of the singer, Gaahl, peering through dark, tangled tresses, are upon us -- his corpse paint dried to the consistency of cracked concrete, mascara-black smudges over cadaver white.
"In order to maintain the raw and crude feeling of the zine, I let the accidental smudges over the graphite and charcoal areas be, in order to bring an energy into the visuals, which could be only brought about through accidents," he explains.
Illogically it has been pushed alongside the camera which you'll smudge over and over again when you unlock it (even Samsung recognises this) and it's hard to reach if you have small hands, particularly on Galaxy S8 Plus.
Sometimes it's a way of foregrounding certain events, while smudging over others.
Ms. Whelan's sheer decisiveness and canniness do much to smudge over the cracks in her performance, and Mr. Askegard's partnering is unsurpassed.
I've been wearing it smudged over sharp red lip liner to give a bright, festive mouth, and someone always asks what it is.
The terrace bar has a jaw-dropping view: the flat plains of the Alentejo district a distant, heat-hazed smudge over the glimmering Sado estuary far below.
His early promise to curtail tax breaks for hedge-fund billionaires ("getting away with murder") seems to have been smudged over in a tax plan that resembles Mr. Ryan's supply-side blueprint.
The brown smudge over its north pole might be discoloured by tiny particles of tar that have somehow drifted across from the top of Pluto's atmosphere, though if so we can't yet explain their concentration around Charon's pole.
