How To Use Smear In A Sentence

Smear chicken pieces generously with mole and bake in a moderate oven, turning once or twice during baking, for about 30 minutes.
SUMMER heat is finally here but with it comes the worry of sweaty, smeared foundation and smudged eyeliner. The Sun
On Friday, I went in, as scheduled, for a colposcopy, which is what’s called for if the Pap smear appears abnormal. Life Among the Dead
In the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' evocative phrasing, ‘All is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; and wears man's smudge and shares man's smell.’
His fingers left a smear of sweat on the wall.

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So he then proceeded to try to pick up the mouse, but instead succeeded in smearing the chopped up mouse all around. Camfire? Ok here's a story.......
Smear the cut surfaces with olive oil and season with salt. Times, Sunday Times
The gloves are critical because they were smeared with blood consistent with DNA from both victims and O. J. Simpson.
Smear carbon ash on the girl's face:Besides drinking, the boys seize the chance to smear carbon ash on the girl's face, which is a traditional program.
Trim skin and fat from chicken and smear with olive oil. Times, Sunday Times
Which smears the sense of guilt with a veneer of shame and regret. Times, Sunday Times
The lines have been scratched out using a needle, on a canvas smeared with oil colours.
Get the ready-mixed grout on a squeegee, smear it into all the gaps, then smooth away any excess (see below). Times, Sunday Times
Both feet are covered in blood and there's a sizeable puddle smeared on my left side just above the hip.
A layer of clay can be smeared around the inside as a mortar/lining/gap-filler.
She should begin having Pap smears as soon as she is sexually active.
The experience of abuse often makes people difficult, all too easy to smear as unreliable witnesses.
A white blob was smeared across the lower part of his abdomen.
This is one of the most shocking and appalling media smears we have seen - and we have been shocked and appalled many times in the past.
So, Alex came in and helped me clean all of the smudges and smears off (also, my chin, neck, arm).
But if the commentor is right, it would be an even more ridiculous point to make - pure smear, without an ounce of journalistic content.
It is a smear campaign. Times, Sunday Times
She believes she is the victim of a smear campaign by former inmates of residential institutions.
In Britain, cervical Papanicolaou's smears are performed every five years and do not necessarily include bimanual examinations.
And I was cutting the cheddar into pretty thick slices figuring I would make a proper doorstep sandwich and maybe smear some Branston pickle on the cheese, yeah?
The grand entrance had been smeared with paint and graffiti while a unique Victorian glass lantern roof had been smashed letting water pour on to the decorative floors below.
In the European parliament, however, 10 of the swabs were smeared with between 20 micrograms and 30 micrograms.
Smearing a good woman for partisan, political advantage can be a deadly game that can easily backfire.
Smear cream on to your baby's skin at the edges of the plaster to prevent it from rubbing.
Flaying the Hindu practice of smearing ash or saffron or sporting a 'tilak' on the forehead for yet another time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi questioned the need for 'such things in a country which preached equality of all religions'. The Financial Express
His book is full of disgusting lies, innuendo and smears. Times, Sunday Times
The children had smeared peanut butter all over the sofa.
A new method of cervical smear test screening is being developed which could save hundreds of lives.
There's almost nothing you can do when people are determined to smear you like this to completely contain the damage.
A novel method based on multi-frame image information fusion is presented by extending the dynamic range of the microscopic image in order to improve the quality of TB sputum smear microscopic image.
Pictures showed smears of blood, a body outside the building and smouldering wreckage on an upper floor. Times, Sunday Times
Kenworthy looked at the dejected cakes nominally protected from flies by sliding panels of smeared glass. PASSION IN THE PEAK
It took him an hour to crawl to the door leaving a trail of sweat and blood smears behind him.
Revlon Skin Brightening powder dusted lightly over your decollete and cheekbones should be lovely, and an eyelash curler and waterproof brown mascara will keep your lashes visible and unsmeared by tears of joy. Wedding Make-Up: Pastors Can Help!
Her smear test has shown abnormal cells. The Sun
Smear 50g melted butter around a pudding basin. Times, Sunday Times
However, that is an attitude that is shaped by my very Western lifestyle wherein Western grocery stores have no such thing as food courts attached to them wolfing down a sandwich slapped together at the Boar's Head deli counter while waiting in the Express checkout line does not count as a food court, and food courts in shopping malls are teeming with screaming, disobedient children, making for a highly unenjoyable, stressful decision-making process between deep-fried hot dogs impaled on sticks and peddled by pimple-faced Rain-bo Brites and the less arterially noxious chicken "patty" that has been breaded, deep-fried, and smeared with diet mayo. Tampopo - A Crunky Quickie at the Market
As though poor Azoka had not enough misery, her mother took away her trinkets to decorate the bear, and forced her to smear her pretty, ochred face with cinders. Fort Amity
Wipe the scallops dry and use a pastry brush to smear one side with oil. Times, Sunday Times
Smear remaining oil onto middle of two sheets of foil. Times, Sunday Times
The GOP Smear that Obama is eltist is frankly ridiculous Barack & Michelle both came from firmly blue collar backgrounds, Michelle's dad was a dustmen for goodness sake. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
Her closed eyes were smeared with a gold makeup across the lids, and a double loop of pink, possibly coral beads fell loosely around her neck.
WOULD like to know how many successful smear campaigns the police have got away with. The Sun
This week, Cllr White reacted angrily to what she calls ‘the smears and untruths,’ levelled at her by Senator Nolan in last week's Nationalist.
WOULD like to know how many successful smear campaigns the police have got away with. The Sun
A group of children were close to tears after walking to a park only to find dog dirt smeared over the slide and bottles smashed on the floor.
Implying terrorist ties to Obama, albeit very veiled, is still a bit of a smear tactic. McCain defends his 'bearings'
Russell himself carried her to the nearby emergency ward, with her catsuit soaked through with champagne, make-up smeared across her face and blood pumping from her hand.
Last week he denounced the reports that he was educated in a madrasah as a 'ludicrous' smear. Times, Sunday Times
Make your own sticky trap by smearing Vaseline or Tanglefoot on a yellow surface and hang it up close to where the adults congregate.
His cheeks were smeared with blood from his palms, two crimson marks like war paint. MINUTES TO BURN
Inside the restaurant the walls were smeared with grease and the floor covers were torn and hard to clean.
It can take ten years for abnormal cells detected by smears to become cancerous. The Sun
It consisted of a neat little cup composed of dry grass smeared all over exteriorly with cobwebs, and fixed in a fork of one of the outer branches of a large babool-tree about 10 feet from the ground. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
Some woodworkers suggest putting a lump of wax inside a few layers of folded cotton cheesecloth and rubbing it onto wood thus preventing heavy smears.
There were diagonal smears of black on his overalls seat where he always wiped his greasy hands. THE QUEST FOR K
A thick paste smeared in the oven and left overnight makes that loathsome task easier without the need for chemical cleaners. Times, Sunday Times
I said, giving him a woeful look behind my entirely smeared mascara.
After that came the mistletoe to smear the blade, whose sticky sap would ensure free, unstaunchable bleeding ... and the great, thick-bladed steel knife with which to take the trophy skull ... Ripping Time
Smear on a little and your razor just glides over your skin, giving you a super-close, super-silky shave.
A growler was a metal pail, its inside often smeared with lard. LAST CALL
Fans of battered faces smeared in ketchup will not be disappointed. Times, Sunday Times
The stair walls were smeared with mousse, and it smelled as if Olga had tried to clean the stuff up with benzene. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Identity theft: Russian Baptists smeared: A fake newspaper in Smolensk portrays Protestants as morally loose. Phony Paper Smears Russian Baptists | Liveblog | Christianity Today
The world kept breaking up into a miasma of red dots and smeared vision.
The infections were detected in recipients by a positive blood smear.
It was as black and polished as an obsidian mirror, though besmeared in many places with fingerprints. THE BROKEN GOD
His hands were besmeared with blood.
The sun burned on her back and on the straw hat she had put on, and a smear of dirt colored one of her cheeks.
Another childhood experience influenced the meal: Mayonnaise was banned because Fallon once got his head stuck in a banister at his grandparents' house, and they smeared mayo on it to squeeze him out. Jimmy Fallon's Top Chef Birthday Bash
This is unlikely to hurt TeamClinton much, but it will defuse their "slumlord" smear of Obama. Hillary On The Morning Shows: Surprised By Photo Of Her And Rezko
Certainly no one enjoys being smeared as a race of cheapskates, especially when that cheapness has been presented over the centuries as a ruthless desire to take a profit at any cost.
It's a government smear campaign. Times, Sunday Times
What advice should be offered to a woman who has a normal colposcopy result after a smear shows low grade cervical abnormalities?
There is no screening programme for ovarian cancer and it is important to stress that cervical smear tests do not pick it up. Times, Sunday Times
Flaying the Hindu practice of smearing ash or saffron or sporting a 'tilak' on the forehead for yet another time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Wednesday questioned the need for "such things in a country which preached equality of all religions. NDTV News - Top Stories
He looked at the thin smear of my blood on his palm, and wrapped a small black towel around my hand.
Hold it in place with elastic bands and smear with paraffin wax to seal the cuts. The Sun
The crude faceless void left by the erasure of his portrait on the Berlin tondo, for example, shows signs of having been smeared with excrement.66 Caesars’ Wives
This concentrates dirt on the window and can leave smears and smudges.
If he were white, we'd be getting the elitistist eggheaded ivory tower in-tee-lect-shul who never did an honest days work in his life smear, the corrupt Chicago politician smear and, possibly, the inexperience smear. Counting The White Women In McCain's "Hot Chicks" Ad
Strong words indeed for a fellow who abhors political smear and accuses others of engaging in it!
It makes no sense to skip your smear test. The Sun
Van Jones, who was purged from the White House through a Fox News-orchestrated smear campaign, told a gathering of activists in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, that the day after Obama's election, "you gave away your power" by receding to the sidelines or turning their attention to individual issues while neglecting the over-arching narrative. Adele Stan: GOP Wave: Progressives Not Bold Enough?
But on the doorstone he found three drops shaken, dried now but plain to be seen, and on the new and unstained timber with which the left jamb of the doorway had been repaired there was a blurred smear of blood at the level of his own shoulder, where a gashed and bloodied sleeve had brushed past. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
Chennai, November 5:: Flaying the Hindu practice of smearing ash or saffron or sporting a 'tilak' on the forehead for yet another time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi questioned the need for 'such things in a country which preached equality of all religions'. Latest News Online - The Indian Express
The Pap smear is officially called the Papanicolaou Test, after the doctor who invented it.
For Thais party spokesman Prompong Nopparit described the allegation as a smear tactic, and Ms. Yingluck indicated Thursday that she was untroubled by the claims. Thaksin's Sister Faces Legal Challenge Ahead of Vote
The politicians tried to smear the governor's reputation in order to elect the man they chose.
His mouth was smeared with blood and his canine teeth were overlapping his lips.
Even before you take into account the party as whole depending on dodgy money, smearing anyonewho stand sin its way, and generally cosying up to the super-rich. A fate worse than Hain?
Once my hair was completely pale blonde again, I titled my face upward to wash away the smeared make-up.
John Sweeney has attempted a sad little smear against his foe which rebounded in terrible fashion on him.
This accusationof bribery is a vile smear on an honourable citizen.
Smear any escaping herby oil over the outside of the meat and season it. Times, Sunday Times
A tin can filled with information - part of a dead drop - was smeared with messy motor oil.
A finger slid between his teeth and smeared something on the roof of his mouth, something thick and syrupy and bitter that melted and numbed his tongue and his raw throat when he had to swallow it.
After a given electoral defeat, the left consoles itself with the illusion that a cabal of this nature would have contrived the lowest, slimiest smear it could have hoped to get away with, found some moneybags to fund it, snuck it into the public debate, and swayed the weak-minded. Deconstructing Obama
All I could see was that face, smeared in jellylike feces, the blank eyes sightlessly staring into the abyss above. The Curse of the Wendigo
I've got most of the roof done, and all I need to do there is nail a few more boards to it and smear that roofing tar across it.
Across one cheek was a scrape; tiny smears of dried blood speckled her mottled skin below her eye.
Then he deftly smeared some salve on the wound and wrapped it with a new bandage, taping it in place.
Lifting his hand, Shanza barely had time to wrap his blood-smeared fingers around the smooth shaft and yank before his knee collided with the ground and he sank into oblivion.
The control mice consistently had 4-5 day cycles, with 2 leukocytic smears followed by one nucleated smear and one to two cornified smears ( PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Smear a little olive oil over the inside of the salad bowl.
Mired in allegations of financial irregularity during his time in government, which he has rejected as a Labour smear, he is one of the least favoured in the party membership, where he is regarded as, at best, hypocritical and two-faced.
Smear a large roasting tin with a little olive oil. Times, Sunday Times
What clean this ceramic tile at the back of hearth and office of ceramic tile juncture again later is smeary, it is OK to should be swabbed with scour only.
The mascara was a little smeary, but it would pass. Twenty-Ten
We shower, we smear and spray ourselves with product, we defecate into artfully designed porcelain which takes away the ordure invisibly and more or less odourlessly.
The witch doctors were smearing them with paste and shouting spells at them. Times, Sunday Times
Hmmm, let's see, the Democratic smear machine in superb working order, personal attack after personal attack on her as well as her entire family. DNC reacts: Palin decision 'continues a pattern of bizarre behavior'
Legs at 0.14 do seem pale and I think the call sounds like a deep nasal laugh : so I'll go for the species named after German zoologist Karl Michahelles.and petemoulton said:One other thing: the red gonydeal spot is kind of smeary, and seems to extend a bit onto the upper mandible. Mystery bird: yellow-legged gull, Larus michahellis
Frances Jones testing the locally produced waragi to see whether it is strong enough to fix blood smears
Studies suggest that sputum smears persistently positive despite negative culture results may in some patients be due to nonviable or atypical mycobacteria.
Red-gold fire showed through the shrivelling skin, and then all at once it flared into coruscant life, a pillar of blinding plasma that flashed from floor to ceiling and left a smear of superheated ash on the walls.
Smear it over the entire eyelid with your fingertips, then add black mascara and eye pencil along the upper lash line.
It was the smeared red lipstick, smugged black eye makeup and the sweaty looking tassle hair that made her look like she had been "doing something" that I questioned that being said if the kid didn't do something to cool their heels Disney would work that kid to death. Miley Cyrus: The Truth Is Unbearable. A Reasonable Perspective. TheShellyPalmerReport
Each new rumour added fresh impetus to the smear campaign.
It's the walkback scheme, where he lets these outside groups walk out these slurs/smears against Barack Obama, and then those slurs/smears are walked back with a 'denouncement' from McCain, but once they've been walked out and back, they still leave that behind in the public discourse. Swift Boat Vet Operative Vows To "Attack Obama Viciously"
Round the side of the theatre, the performers – costumed in sackcloth, their faces smeared with dirt and white stage-paint – form a circle and hold hands, in a surprisingly professional bonding moment before curtain-up. What are all these American high school students doing in Edinburgh?
Between her forefeet was a bundle still covered with smears of soft earth, and behind her were drag marks from a hole under the overhang of a bush. The Defiant Agents
We observed ALs in peripheral blood smears during routine examination of smears selected for review by a pathologist.
Bone marrow smears were examined to determine the extent of genotoxicity after particular treatment times.
The glass was not tinted and there was no tell-tale rain smear to alert the unwary. Times, Sunday Times
I tried the Rajasthan chicken, described as being smeared with fresh ginger and chillies and a coriander sauce.
Chronic period often cannot find clap diplococcus on smear.
Indirect IS-PCR was carried out for the same patients to detect the HPV DNA types 6/11 and 16/18 after the PAP-stained smears had been decolorized.
For instance, you can smear a homemade mixture into the opened scales of a pinecone, then hang the cone from a tree branch.
For over a year, many on the right have led a smear campaign against the Census, potentially undermining the constitutionally mandated decennial count. Think Progress » GOP congressman calls out conservatives pushing ‘blatant misinformation’ about the Census.
The occurrence of other illnesses and malarial parasitaemia (adjusted for positive smear results at baseline) was not significantly affected by iron administration.
President Bush again smeared opponents of the Iraq war last night, accusing them of “waving the white flag of surrender.” Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 29, 2006
And should he choose to be a father one day, please give to him the age-old experience of wrestling his own infant son on the changing table, all at once getting headbutted by this pudgy Tasmanian Devil who has now befouled four diapers and smeared feces on the wall because he WILL NOT JUST F%#KING LIE STILL, and being more in love with this mini Genghis Khan than he ever thought possible. Jamie Denbo: Tina Fey, Mothers, Daughters, Sons
In a closed-door meeting, the folksy cleric parries lawmakers' queries by smearing the ministers with corruption charges.
His conduct at school besmeared his father's reputation.
It's unclear whether any concertgoers were similarly besmeared, but the gig's promoters are providing full refunds. Kings of Leon forced off stage by incontinent pigeons
All the old smears were revived. The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
That means smear campaigns, dirty politics and lots and lots of fibs.
So judge of our surprise when this wonderful London cousin of ours first produced a large jar of what he called mosquito cream, and proceeded to smear his face and hands with the odorous compound. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure
Expect all of the talk radio clowns to begin smearing Huckabee as often as Matt Drudge has recently. Archive 2007-12-01
They smear their bodies with ochre, a reddish pigment extracted from iron ore.
Who could believe that someone so upstanding would stoop to besmear himself in the slush of Teapot Dome? The Prize
I actually believe pop ups and spam are at the absolute lowest, most blatant edge of online marketing - and possibly even a smear used to mask something more subtle and sinister.
Her head snapped back and his signet cut her cheek, leaving a thin smear of blood on the back of his hand. TREASON KEEP
The ink was smudged and smeared beyond recognition.
The sides of the strickle are smeared with grease upon which fine gritty sand is sprinkled freely; nothing gives a better edge to a scythe than this.
She had a cold and a smear of phosphorescent snot lay on her upper lip, a hapless, inoffensive leak that I was responsible for. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
My continued doubts about the Nikon 10-24 regard the "smeary" corners at wider focal lengths on most, but not all, images I've seen. News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
Each new rumour added fresh impetus to the smear campaign.
Smear a 23cm quiche tin with a removable base with 25g butter. Times, Sunday Times
The choking, glugging boiling water twanged against the hollow unplumbed tub and the brass bungle of piping smeared and juddered.
Then he turned the paraglider tightly, circling until the rapidly nearing roofs of Mayrhofen began to smear like wet paint across my sight.
The colors - simmered shades of red, yellow and blue - are more urban decay than Mondrian, turning up as rusty orange, bilious yellow, bruised blue, teal blue and off-red, with smears of black and white.
The main source of his claim appears to be an article which is a fairly transparent, shriekingly anti-left, smear campaign.
Instead, I could see a gentle transition, a smeared boundary between chemistry and biochemistry, between “prelife” and life. SuperCooperators
Smear the cut surfaces with olive oil and season with salt. Times, Sunday Times
We were able to give the child antimalarial drugs and transport him to the nearest hospital, where blood smear examination confirmed that his blood was teeming with malaria parasites.
So what should you avoid smearing all over the largest largest organ of the integumentary system? Mairi Beautyman: Three Dangerous Ingredients to Avoid in Skincare Products
His good name has been smeared by the tabloids but his films still shine through with a unique and often brilliant vision.
The children had smeared the walls with mud.
It says something about the smear campaign against our candidate that it has stooped to enlist a hatemonger.
Then in 1986 a physician noticed bacterial clusters called morulae in a blood smear from a critically ill man that looked like those formed by bacteria in the genus THE MEDICAL NEWS
Finally, by torchlight, I take a twitching haunch, cover it with rock salt and smear it with wild sage, and we've got dinner.
There was dog dirt smeared on the slides and the floor.
And director Francesca Zambello kept a focus on storytelling so that the action was always clear, from the moment when the handsome captain of the guard, Narraboth, kills himself out of frustrated passion for the princess Salome to the moment when the princess, smeared with blood from the decapitated head she has just kissed, is punitively garrotted (rather than crushed by a shield) by another guardsman. Washington National Opera unveils a lively 'Salome'
This indicates that coprophagous animals were indeed at least partially responsible for the disappearance of the fecal smears in the 1999 alpine experiment.
The observed benefits included unsustained sputum smear conversion to negative, delayed growth of cultures and shrinkage of cavities.
He returned with a piece of cloth smeared with arnica ointment to keep the bruise at bay.
The armrests of the witness chair were smeared black from the sweat of those who had come before.
The win condition is that when you get news of something terrible happening to someone who smeared Ben Gay all over your friend's locker or pushed another friend down the stairs or any of the other lovely things that happened in high school, you are not glad. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
Taking a simple blood sample or vaginal smear will probably involve only minimal discomfort.
They had an impression of very red cheeks and moist yellow hair smeared over the scalp like egg yolk.
When he finally did come back he had a shade of pink lipstick smeared across his lips and his cheek.
He was referring to McCain loosing his bearings on his morals and integrity by participating in smear tactics. Blitzer: Was Obama taking aim at McCain's age?
As for the US links ... that's what I call smearing and that's what I call right wing tossery. Man Watching: Greater Spotted Tossers At Large
Health bosses in Bradford are appealing to women to make time for a vital health check after a worrying drop in the numbers having smear tests.
Who on Earth would think to teach their child the term Kafkaesque long before the boy will ever read Kaftka and when his field trips to the library are spent smearing his own pre-teen ejaculate on hardcover classics? Buzzine » Brooklyn Bound
Information about smear tests should be readily available to young women. The Sun
They emptied out the remains of the tin of paint and smeared it on the inside of the van.
An overripe pear was hurled and left a brown smear on the upstairs window.
Information about smear tests should be readily available to young women. The Sun
PS I must never fail to mention the part played by the suppsedly Progressive Compass Group in smearing Boris on behalf of this monster and retaining Miranda Grell (The woman who lied about a gay man claiming he was a paedo, to win a Council seat) until it became impossible to do so any longer. Archive 2008-01-20
His fingers left a smear of sweat on the wall.
I notice with unease that the sleeves of the beige sweatshirt are smeared with blood.
When the problems caused by exposure in the womb became known, DES daughters were advised to have annual exams with smears taken from the vagina and cervix, and those women with vaginal tissue abnormalities, such as adenosis, were found to have nearly 50% more auto-immune diseases than DES daughters without such abnormalities. DES Miscarriage Drug Linked to More Cancer
Secondly, many if not most false negative smears can be detected on re-examination, but what does this mean from the legal point of view?
There appears to be some slight strobing and motion artifacting or ‘smearing’ in clothing patterns.
The IUD is inserted through the cervix and into the womb, while the vagina is held open as in a cervical smear test.
No, no, what you want to smear on your head is: birdlime. January Appearances « Whatever
The small boy spoilt the picture by smearing it with ink.
She showed off the bedazzling at the pap smear press conference, seen left. Kathy Griffin Keeps Talking About Her Sparkly Vagina
I never thought I would be involed in politics, I'd fideidefensor #politics "Nadine Dorries sueing Damien McBride over smears" I hope she bankrupts him even politicians should have some vestige of the truth Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
A greenish paste had been smeared over their faces and all visible skin.
He rubbed his eyes, which were smeared with faint lines of black eyeliner, and blinked at Alice as if in a daze.
The children had smeared peanut butter all over the sofa.

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