His face was smeared with sandalwood, and he wore a loose-fitting silk shirt through which a dark triangle of chest hair stuck out.

NEWYORKER: The Elephant

So preoccupied was she that she barely noticed Lewis's bloated torso as he waddled across the floor, lapping up the turkey juice that was smeared there.

WSJ: A Christmas Tale of Hope and Renewal. For Dogs.

Billy Dale, who directed the travel office, was quickly cleared of any wrongdoing but believes the administration smeared him.

CNN: AllPolitics - Travelgate

She got down another plate, set it on the counter until she was ready to put the toasted muffin halves and the eggs smeared with ketchup on top of it.

NEWYORKER: Free Radicals

The wall of a jail cell, smeared with excrement as an act of protest, was filmed with such compositional care that it became, in effect, a work of abstract art, allowing us to forget what it actually was: human waste, applied with human rage, and surely unbearable to the human nose.

NEWYORKER: Hot and Bothered

Ledger's Joker was a very different proposition from those that had come before: In a ripped, stained suit, with clown makeup smeared across a scarred, twisted mouth, his Joker was a nihilistic, sociopathic prankster.

CNN: Ledger fans demand the Joker retired from film

Professor Longley said that his "integrity has been smeared" following these allegations and insisted that contact with government officials was "appropriate" to ensure "we had the most accurate data".

BBC: Health and Social Services Committee

The missionary leaflets by the collection box were smeared and dog-eared, and Bartholomew noticed now that there was bird lime on curtains that were there in place of a door to the vestry.

NEWYORKER: Faith

In the 70s, I may have occasionally put gel upon my hair, smeared mascara upon my eyes and arranged a sneer upon my lip, but I was really a middle-class grammar school boy masquerading as part-time punk.

BBC: Should we despair at the kids of today?