It lifted its hand, rubbed a black crumbling smear across his face from cheek to chin.

Snaresbrook's skin was gray and there were black smears of fatigue under her eyes.

I swear you could see the screams like black smears on the air.

The ground fell away from him and the hilltop where he had stood became a black smear on the rolling green meadow.

The pale face caught in that light was streaked with black smears; dark hair tumbled about it.

I pointed to the little black smear on the concrete.

We had come all the way around to the place of the black smear.

A big black smear covered most of one cheek.

They left black smears on the hands when touched.

He rubbed his eyes and made black smears around them, too.