Example Sentences

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"Intensity mapping is like viewing the same scene through a smudged plane window: you get a blurrier picture, but you capture all the light and not just the brightest spots."

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

Neytiri, her face smudged with black mourning makeup, has turned toward prayer.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

Can’t they be smudged in the developing process or ruined if you don’t rewind the roll just right?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

Another message, partially smudged, appears to tell officers to catch the inmates when they can.

From BBC • May 20, 2025

His eyes were dull as if they'd been colored in brown and smudged.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez