A faint, cloudy smear of heat drifts up from the cups when the coffee is poured, it's that cold in the room.

There was a faint smear of dirt across her cheek.

Their hands left faint red smears on the scrubbed white pine of the balustrade.

He must have been sheltering somehow from the rain, for the faint smears of gore on his chest and arms were quite dry.

There was a faint smear of blood beside the first trace.

Look here,' she cried, drawing a finger down her cheek and showing a faint smear of pink.

They crept their way up the first flight, pausing at the bend, where a large stained-glass window let in a faint smear of light.

Mere enlarged what looked like a faint red smear, and after a moment or an hour, she managed to breathe again.

The faint smear of face, almost hidden by the boy's left shoulder, looked both terrified and exalted.

The faint smear of mud on rock was not yet quite dry.