Looking for sentences and phrases with the word smirch? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Then I stopped, because it seemed a pity to smirch the innocence of this object – its sprightly, purposeless oddity – with a neutralising explanation.
Too often, in the years between 800 and 1050, the everyday sun declined through the smirch of flame and smoke of a monastery or town robbed and burnt.
Examples from Classical Literature
The smirch upon the regiment was likewise a smirch upon that blood and name.
It was a foul deed to seek to shame me in this ugly fashion, and to smirch the honour of the Queen.
After the trial I saw Holker and asked him if he had been helping to smirch any more poor artists.
Every hand but his was black with soot, and his was guiltless of the smirch of Hooniah's pot.
His will was a scandal, and the horror did not only smirch his good name, it reached to hers.
He can soil it, but except himself the whole world cannot smirch it.
One could never detect a smirch or a grain of dust upon them.
Every time he looked at me 'twas as if he saw a smirch on his escutcheon.
When she looked at Martin, she seemed to see the smirch left upon him by his surroundings.
So dreadful are his execrations that the frightened lad thrust his fingers into his ear-holes, and ran until the fellow was but a brown smirch upon the yellow road.
