smeared
Example Sentences
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This included an empty can of energy drink left in the middle of the floor of a clean delivery room - as well as butter "smeared around the top of a birthing pool".
From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026
Often smeared on hot buttered toast, it tastes like a fishy, peppery paté, befitting the mock Latin name Osborn gave to it, Patum Peperium.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
“It almost looks like Cheeto dust,” she said, “like somebody had Cheetos on their fingers and just smeared it on the landscape.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
For years, I left a trail behind me: stacked dishes, smeared counters, a fine dusting of flour like evidence.
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025
One day, Tao Tao was introduced to a “predator”—a clouded leopard stuffed toy, smeared with leopard pee and poo and plopped in the middle of the forest.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
