dab

Example Sentences

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“We don’t want to live in fear, so we make ourselves useful working for organizations that move the scale away from fear and put us smack dab in the middle of love.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2025

He passed Ponting with a trademark dab through point.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2025

A dab into the off side completed a sixth Test hundred and continued a remarkable record that has seen the left-hander make tons in his first matches in the West Indies, Australia and now England.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025

We’re smack dab in the middle of 2010 again.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2025

The bottom of each red cup was given a dab of paste and the cup was pasted on the penciled heart.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith