How to Use smudge in a Sentence

smudge

1 of 2 verb

• His face was smudged with grease.
• Don't smudge the picture with your dirty hands!
• And, for the love of god, the ink better not bleed or smudge until the end of the day.
  — Chloe Metzger, Marie Claire, 25 May 2018
• Once dry, though, the polish held its own and didn’t smudge.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
• The creamy black glides on with ease and doesn't smudge, feather, or fade.
  — Allure Editors, Allure, 13 Sep. 2022
• Once your stamps are ready, just smudge some blobs of paint on a plate and dip away!
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 12 Feb. 2020
• Drink from the same place on the glass every time so the entire rim isn’t smudged.
  — Sarah Solomon, Town & Country, 28 July 2017
• And still Robinson sat, a blank look on a face smudged with eye black.
  — Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• Paint a picture then slash it, or smudge it or shoot it with a gun.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• The group has yet to achieve a distinctive sound, and some of the passage work is smudged.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Remove skewers and smudge over the holes with your finger to smooth the tops.
  — Lisa Ruland, Bon Appétit, 12 Feb. 2021
• Even on a summer day, the stuff didn't smudge or give me raccoon eyes.
  — Karina Hoshikawa, refinery29.com, 18 June 2021
• But Brooks, with eye black smudged on his cheeks, lingered.
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2020
• Our tablecloth was smudged; so were the murals of old Aleppo on the walls.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2019
• Loved by La' Pearl, this shouldn’t smudge, transfer, or feel heavy..
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2022
• The park was alive with sunlight and flowers; the worst of the wildfires were over but smoke still smudged the horizon.
  — Longreads, 18 Sep. 2019
• The ink has faded to brown over the years; the back of the page is smudged perhaps by food or fingertips.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 5 June 2018
• Apply and let dry for a clean line, or apply and smudge (while still wet) for a messier look.
  — Sophie Wirt, Allure, 31 Aug. 2017
• The Lash Paradise has a full lash fringe that has a feathery soft wavy brush that doesn’t flake or smudge.
  — Daisy Maldonado, SELF, 13 Sep. 2022
• Spices smudge the surface and resonate deep into the meat of both Boswell’s jerk chicken and pork.
  — Brett Anderson, NOLA.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• Wearing bright red lipstick that didn’t smudge all over a face mask.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2020
• The blue-gray Pacific was clear far out to where a fogbank smudged the horizon.
  — John Dos Passos, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
• There were gas stations every few blocks, and the sky was smudged with brown exhaust.
  — Christine Smallwood, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• Just pop some clear gloss on your eyelids, apply a pink lippie and then smudge the gloss on your lips.
  — Seventeen Editors, Seventeen, 19 Jan. 2023
• Draw a hashtag on the outer corner of your eyelid and smudging it out with the sponge.
  — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 26 Jan. 2018
• To create a grungy smokey eye, draw it on your lash line — top and bottom — and then use your finger to smudge it.
  — Jessica Ourisman, Allure, 22 Aug. 2022
• In one photo, Bronze looks shocked as his mom snaps his photo, cake smudged across his cheeks.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
• In one photo, Bronze looked shocked as his mom snapped his photo, cake smudged across his cheeks.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
• Thanks to the creamy formula, the brush can be used to smudge the product to create a smokey effect or clean up any mishaps.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 27 July 2022
• Underneath gorgeous cornrows were eyes smudged with a smoky linker on the lower lash line.
  — Essence, 26 Jan. 2024

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smudge

2 of 2 noun

• His hand left a grimy smudge on the wall.
• On the shed was what appeared to be a palm-sized smudge of blood.
  — Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• The mark on her cheek is blurry and soft, like a smudge of dirt.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2023
• The five shades are long-wearing, smudge-free and last for up to 12 hours.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 17 May 2021
• How chapped would his lips have to be to take a smudge of it from her mouthy tube?
  — Sarah Braunstei, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
• Bring along a notebook and smudge-proof pen to jot down ideas along the way.
  — Kaitlyn McInnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2022
• Watch the video for the whole smudge-technique on display.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 26 Oct. 2021
• Anyone in the Olympic bubble have some sage and a smudge pot?
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2022
• Per the Evening Standard, the smudge was the result of a fan signing gone wrong.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 7 Mar. 2023
• Some clouds seemed not much more than gray smudges against the season’s haze.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
• The first startling image is a red paint smudge over black ink.
  — Armond White, National Review, 29 Sep. 2023
• The brand also claims the pencil is smudge-proof and long-wearing.
  — Jessica Kasparian, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2020
• But this one, with its XXL-sized brush and non-smudge formula, won the hearts of our judges.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 26 Nov. 2019
• Wearers can expect up to 36 hours of smudge-free wear, too.
  — Celia Shatzman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 May 2022
• Blocks of buildings that once stood appear now as smudges.
  — Rozina Ali, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• This waterproof and smudge-proof gel is infused with hair-like fibers to fill the brow in for a full look.
  — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 8 Dec. 2022
• Some of the scenic artists made the new construction look old and lived in, placing marks on the front door and smudges on windows.
  — Helene Stapinski, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2019
• There was the tail-spot that Jack saw earlier, a charcoal smudge.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 27 May 2020
• Then Christine surrenders to the warm grass and is brought up short by a smudge of pink that is and isn’t the dead Vivian.
  — Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
• That’s when a Vulcan, dressed a red costume and a giant smile, approached and gave her a hug and a smudge.
  — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
• The lack of flakes and smudges is down to the absence of oil, which tends to cause the pigment in traditional mascara to run.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2023
• The smudge root, bright blonde ends, and done-but-not done texture makes the entire style look perfectly lived-in.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 31 Jan. 2024
• On top of all that, the brand claims the formula is smudge-proof and water-resistant.
  — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2020
• The creamy kohl liners, which are transfer-, water-, and smudge-proof, will be available to shop on February 27.
  — ELLE, 14 Feb. 2023
• The initial step is to remove any grim, fingerprints, and smudges from the surface.
  — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 20 Mar. 2023
• Anybody else notice the black smudge on Justin Turner’s back?
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
• From the tallest peak in Hawaii to a high plateau in the Andes, some of the biggest telescopes on Earth will point towards a faint smudge of light over the next few weeks.
  — Alexandra Witze, Scientific American, 27 Nov. 2019
• For now, though, the most distant galaxy in question is just a red smudge in James Webb’s first data.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 Aug. 2022
• At a time when almost every Macintosh was a variation of beige or gray, the Macintosh TV came along with a splash of black (a smudge?) to spice things up a bit.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
• The penguins’ guano–aka bird poop–showed up on satellite imagery as a series of dark smudges and allowed researchers to zero in on these new breeding sites.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024