finger mark
noun
a mark, especially a smudge or stain, made by a finger.
finger-marked
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a word derived from
finger mark.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Stringfellow flipped through the finger-marked pages, read an 11-year-old question: "If there is any nickel in iron, does it adversely affect the life of the cell?"
From Time Magazine Archive
I had a terrible time getting the necessary export permit, a document about ten pages long, smudged and finger-marked, dotted with tax stamps, official stamps, signatures and more signatures.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Will you stay with this?" the Colonel had asked Keith hurriedly, nodding at the treasure-covered table, and catching up the finger-marked block before Jack was a yard from the window.
From The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins
His fingers touched it and brought out the creased, finger-marked scrap of paper.
From Mr. Wicker's Window by Lynd Ward
They sat against the dirty rear wall, whose white paint was finger-marked, fly-specked, and food-spotted, and in which a shelf-aperture furnished the connection with the kitchen.
From The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim
