Which preposition to use with smear
The sun, a glowing ball of copper, hung low in the west over a rampart of purple clouds, whose heights were smeared with red.
In the west was a thin smear of orange; but, for the rest, the world was of a uniform and gleaming gray.
And when he kissed Lenore he left a great smear on her cheek.
Hardly had he time to let his sad eye run over their altered forms and brutal metamorphosis, when with an ointment which she smeared over them, suddenly their bristles fell off, and they started up in their own shapes men as before.
Thorndyke gazed intently at the paper for a minute or two, scrutinising the thumb-print and the smears in turn, but making no remark, while Mr. Singleton watched his impassive face with expectant curiosity.
If you have made up your mind never to touch a snake or go nearer to one than you can help, then I need scarcely tell you what you know already, that these are all alike hideous and repulsive in their aspect, being smeared from head to tail with a viscous and venomous slime, which, as your Shakespeare will tell you, leaves a trail even on fig-leaves when they have occasion to pass over such.
For navigating streams and rivers, lakes and bays, they constructed canoes of birch bark sewed together with thongs of deerskin and smeared at the joints with spruce-tree gum.
Her mauve blue eyes looked larger than they were because of their dark brows and lashes, and the faint mauve smears about their lids.
When they have burst, use an ointment composed of one part of citron ointment and four of spermaceti, well rubbed together, and smear along the edge of the eyelid.
Russians were smeared across in front of these pits, dead, dying, or woundedcut down by the terrible spray of German machine guns.
The face our hero beheld to be as white as dough, with fishy eyes and a bony forehead, on the side of which was a great smear as of blood.
In this greasy rift the air lay thick, as though smeared into a groove.
That alone was the obstacleno, it was something back of Judith's will, something which even Arnold recognized; for now, to her astonishment, he looked up, his face smeared like a weeping child's, and said in a low tone, "You know, of course, that Judith's right.