Example Sentences

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At church services across the country, clergy members will smudge crosses on parishioners’ foreheads, murmuring, “Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2024

They are fearful that power lines suspended from towering structures in the river will smudge an historic part of Virginia’s landscape.

From Washington Times • Oct. 2, 2015