I raised my hand and rubbed my fingers over a dirty smudge on Laura's cheek.

Neighbors frown at her politely: she's leaving dirty smudges on the elevator mirror glass.

There was a dirty smudge under it where another opinion on the subject had been clumsily erased.

The usually pristine white wilderness was dotted with dirty smudges of crusty ash deposited in recent days.

A warm breeze blew the girl's dark hair into her face, and she reached up to push it back, leaving a dirty smudge upon the tapered point of her ear.

The neat grid of street lights flared into a brief, dirty smudge of light at Coney Island before the jet was clear of the land.

When she swung the kitchen door open, her dog barged in and brushed against his knees, leaving dirty smudges on his leather breeches.

Seven years old, Kirk guessed, with a dirty smudge under a small nose stepped with Bajoran ridges.

And then the thing was gone, and the unnatural cloud tattered and streamed harmlessly off to the southeast to become no more than a dirty smudge on the horizon.

He watched the slow progress of the cart toward the city gates and the dirty smudge of fires from the charnel pits.