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Example sentences for "smear"

Lexicographically close words:
smashing; smatch; smatter; smatterers; smattering; smeared; smearing; smears; smeary; smel
  1. With this, when complete, smear a breadth of tissue-paper, and consider it your plaster.

  2. In any case when you desire to stick together two surfaces with this india-rubber cement, both surfaces must be smeared, as it does not suffice to smear only one.

  3. Put the bort on the steel plate; smear a little butter over the bort to prevent the broken pieces flying away.

  4. Next take the skin out of the solution and smear the inside well with a paste of arsenical soap.

  5. The first thing you have to do is to smear the cushion with amalgam costing sixpence an ounce, an ounce lasting for many weeks.

  6. Talking about rust, I find nothing better wherewith to smear tools that are to be laid past for a short time than a little blue ointment.

  7. A fortnight after the girls join the old women, they (the girls) smear themselves from head to foot with white clay, and wear a screen of small reeds in front of their faces.

  8. Men and women alike smear their bodies, faces, and hands with a mixture of red clay and fat, but this is a general practice, and not only for fete days, even the tiny babies being polished in this way.

  9. Now, Tomas, turn those saddle cloths, smear mud on the trappings and harness, and tie your coat in a roll back of your saddle.

  10. Hal fought to snatch up the knife again; the others to keep him from it, to trample him, bash him in, smear his brains and blood on the floor.

  11. Not now did he smear his mouth with his hand.

  12. Adoree had been nibbling at marshmallows as she talked; as she wiped her eyes now she left a smear of powdered sugar on her cheek.

  13. In the west, a belt of saffron light, cut by the black smear of a bluff, glimmered on the horizon.

  14. Charnock sat at a table strewn with papers that looked like bills, and there was a smear of ink on his chin.

  15. The wire formers must not be allowed to get rusty; therefore, before laying them aside smear them with tallow, or olive oil.

  16. Make a little square or circular paper bag with double-crown, and having put in the grain, and made the joining secure, smear both sides in the usual way, and sift dry meal over.

  17. The stone continued: "If you cut off with your own hand the heads of your two children, and smear me with their blood, I shall come back to life.

  18. I had nothing with which I could smear it over, nor could I reach the head.

  19. The mouth was a smear of some gleaming stuff, evidently some chemical.

  20. Sometimes it is thought enough merely to smear or anoint him with it.

  21. There's no doubt that the undue strain yesterday and this morning weakened it," he said, coming up from the depths with a green smear on his noble brow.

  22. She proceeded to smear the ground before her husband's friend with cowdung, and placed in the midst of it a long pestle, supporting one end of it against the wall.

  23. Morning and evening, for the rest of her life, she used to smear the pillar with sacred cowdung, and water the tulasi shrub.

  24. It is only after this ceremony that women have the right to smear themselves with ochre.

  25. The others agreed with him, for they had seen that smear of smoke on the skyline since early morning.

  26. One of his companions swept his glance astern toward the smear of smoke on the serrated skyline, which was blotted out next moment when the Adelaide swung her stern aloft.

  27. Then Prescott grinned at Jimmy as he glanced toward the fading smear of vapor.

  28. He could see the white smear of tideway that streamed around the head, and the gray wall of rock seemed forging back toward him through the midst of it.

  29. It was toward dusk on the second evening when they steamed into sight of a little schooner, which showed as a gray smear of slanted canvas scarcely distinguishable from the crag a couple of miles to lee of her.

  30. It's the little black smear in the moonlight yonder.

  31. An aromatic smell of burning followed the schooner, and from the levels at the head of the Inlet a long gray smear blew out across the water.

  32. The still water lay shining under the evening light, with a broad smear of smoke trailing athwart it from the steamer which had just vanished behind the dark pines that overhang The Narrows.

  33. So he gave orders to his servants to set traps in the garden and to smear every bough and branch with birdlime in order that the bird might speedily be taken.

  34. In the day-time they are not seen because they smear themselves with a magic ointment which renders them invisible; but at night they are visible to everybody.

  35. Thirlwell shook the box and something rattled inside, after which he noted a dark smear round the edge of the lid.

  36. A small gray object, dwarfed by the distance, stood out against a smear of dark green on the crest of the high ground.

  37. How did the smear happen to be on your hand?

  38. Holmes, looking up with gleaming eyes from the smear on the back of his hand.

  39. Fellows, I've been thinking for weeks and months about that smear on the back of Mr. Dodge's hand.

  40. In getting that pencil out I got on the back of my hand the smear that you all saw.

  41. Bert Dodge found himself without one, and asked me for mine, to wipe a smear of black from the back of his hand.

  42. You didn't see how I got this smear on my hand, did you, old ramrod?

  43. He admitted the borrowing of the handkerchief to wipe a smear of dirt from the back of his hand.

  44. He now stood looking at his left hand, on which appeared a small smear of black.

  45. Say, Holmesy," nudged Dunstan, "how did you get that smear on the back of your hand?

  46. With the medicine I smear on your head you can bring the djo'lgi back to life and let Blue Jay bring it home to the old woman.

  47. The girls all laughed but Nita complained pathetically: "If you girls knew the job it was to smear all that paint on the old stuff, you wouldn't poke fun at the trees.

  48. Yes, my hand may smear on Siva's ashes, while at the same moment my soul may commune with God the Eternal, Who only is God.

  49. And continue to smear Siva's sign on your forehead?

  50. A few days after the men of Enchanted were housed, those who gazed southeast from the mountain shoulder saw a smear of white on the horizon.

  51. A smear of copper in the east marked the presence of the sun.

  52. Next put a nut at either end, as far as the thread will take it, then smear a little white lead around the holes drilled in the ends of the box, B C, Fig.

  53. Do each one the same, then mix a little turpentine with white lead, and smear each end, where you have formed the screws, taking care not to get any into the tubes, which can be temporarily plugged up.

  54. Newhouse trap, smoke it over burning green fir boughs, and smear it with equal parts of oil of amber and beeswax; also, smear the chain and use leather mitts to set trap with, for it is no use setting unless you do.

  55. It is not a bad idea to smear traps in the blood of rabbits or birds.

  56. Putting the letter safely in an inside pocket, he got out his knife and cut rather restlessly into a long smear of yellow lichen on a tree.

  57. Oh," said the wolf, "I need some tar to smear my coat so that the dogs cannot catch me.

  58. Oh," said the fox, "I need some tar to smear my coat so that the dogs cannot catch me.

  59. Smear it all over with tar," said the old woman.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smear" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anoint; baton; beat; bedaub; besmear; besmirch; bespatter; black; blacken; blemish; blot; blotch; blur; brand; butter; calcimine; censure; clobber; cloud; coat; color; cover; cream; curry; darken; daub; defamation; defame; defile; diagnosis; dip; dirty; disapprove; discolor; discredit; disgrace; dishonor; disparage; disparagement; dress; drub; dye; emblazon; enamel; examination; expose; eyesore; face; flick; foul; fresco; gild; glaze; gloss; grain; grease; hue; illuminate; imbue; imputation; ingrain; lacquer; lard; libel; lick; lubricate; malign; mark; mire; muckraking; oil; onus; overrun; overwhelm; paint; paste; patch; pigment; pillory; plaster; pomade; prime; reflection; reprimand; reproach; revile; salve; scandal; scandalize; scorch; sear; shade; shadow; shame; shellac; singe; skunk; slander; slanderous; slick; slur; smear; smirch; smoke; smother; smudge; smut; soil; spate; spatter; speck; splash; splatter; splotch; spot; spread; stain; stigma; stigmatize; stipple; streak; study; taint; tar; tarnish; test; thrash; tincture; tinge; tint; tone; trim; varnish; vilification; vilify; wash; wax; whelm; whip; whitewash; whop