daub
Example Sentences
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Taking her phone from her pocket she shows me pictures of the black and white IS flag, newly daubed on one of the walls of the camp.
From BBC
He is a pliant enough actor to daub each portrait with just enough psychological color.
From Los Angeles Times
They are generally pleasant if bland landscapes, rendered in small, precise daubs of thick paint, and they begin to appear by the mid-1870s.
The painter adds, as grace notes, eight daubs of red, two no larger than a speck, to the prevailing gray.
The series famously concluded with Jimmy Corkhill, played by the late Dean Sullivan, daubing a letter "d" on to the sign, leaving it as "Brookside Closed" before driving out of the cul-de-sac.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
