Shell wiped smeared dirt from her face and short blond hair, her brows wrinkled.

I smeared dirt and grime on the fresh mortar.

She stumbled, her boot sliding in the soil and smearing dirt up the leg of her trousers.

In the thin shadow by the livery, the baby girl was gravely smearing dirt on her face.

One recent newspaper cartoon depicted a crowd of politicians in a field of mud, hurling clods and smearing dirt on each other.