| The Germans set a boxcar on fire, which set off a chain reaction of massive explosions that continued until dawn, which revealed a sky smirched with smoke and ash. |
| Executives will have to see whether those external partners still want to be associated with a designer whose name has been globally smirched. |
| The wallpaper was a fiery red, with huge gold figures in it, well smirched by time, and it covered all the doors. |
| The family of a murdered man know that their honor is smirched. |
| On the contrary: to confess he is made in the image of God is to admit that he smirched that image by his abominations. |
| With driblets of rust on her hull and at the outset of the anchor cable, she recalled the smirched bathtub of some old hotel. |
