Example sentences for: blemish

How can you use “blemish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But rather than explore any of this interesting territory, Hughes opts for the Soviet encyclopedia approach, removing any possible blemish from the face of the leader.

  • Although the modern slang hickey means a ` “suction” kiss that leaves a mark,' and not, thank God, as CDS has it, “raises a blister,” its original meaning was `skin blemish,' and cosmetic makers in the US in the 1930s regularly used the word in their advertising (often with the implied sense `pimple').

  • ...[H]e was indeed the glass / wherein the noble youth did dress themselves... And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish, / Became the accents of the valiant.

  • The NYT , in its inside story, credits the Post , but does something the Post doesn't--reminds the reader that Clark's replacement was once in line to become the chairman of the Joint Chiefs but had to step aside "because of a blemish in his personal life."


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