dab

Example Sentences

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Learning from England mistakes in Perth and his own previous troubles in Australia, Root barely scored through the covers and largely put away any intention to dab the ball behind square on the off side.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

He passed Ponting with a trademark dab through point.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2025

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

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2025

For years, as an early-warning alert system, the county agricultural people had been hanging Medfly traps hither and thither among our pretty, fructiferous trees — little A-frame-shaped cardboard doohickeys with a dab of fly attractant.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024

The farm we lived on was called Cherokee land because it was smack dab in the middle of the Cherokee Nation.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls