If we hadn't, our only transport would be thin smears of metal on the far canyon wall.

There were some thin smears of blood around the wound.

He tasted blood and wiped a thin smear of it from his lip.

The blood was pushed behind another slide held at a 45 angle to form a thin smear over an area of 3-4 cm.

There was a thin smear of blood on Brill's questing hand.

Melegaunt touched three fingertips to his head and came away with a thin smear of blood.

When he touched his fingertips to the offended area, they came away with a thin smear of blood.

A thin smear of blood showed in the corner of his mouth.

There was a thin brown smear along the edge of the metal.

He turned his hand, then, stunned, scrubbed the thin smear of blood away.