How To Use besmear In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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
- Who could believe that someone so upstanding would stoop to besmear himself in the slush of Teapot Dome? The Prize
- Surprised in her satiety by good guys Thalmus Rasulala and Gordon Pinsent, she bolts upright with another of her unsettling banshee wails, her fangs besmeared with blood, ready to rumble. 31 Screams: Ketty Lester
- Jew would rather die than labor on the sabbath; the Persian would endure suffocation, before he would blow the fire with his breath; the Indian places supreme perfection in besmearing himself with cow-dung, and pronouncing mysteriously the word Aum; * the Mussulman believes he has expiated everything in washing his head and arms; and disputes, sword in hand, whether the ablution should commence at the elbow, or finger ends; ** the Christian would think himself damned, if he ate flesh instead of milk or butter. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
- These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets. Cri de coeur
- And let us bathe our hands in blood up to the elbows, and besmear our swords.
- Nor can Bulgaria afford to have its image besmeared again by being seen to be tolerating such practices.
