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He is a pliant enough actor to daub each portrait with just enough psychological color.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026

Collage may indicate motion in Furey’s work, as in two pictures of dancers whose bodies are covered in patterns, whether more flower photos or rendered with line and daub.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023

Celebrants daub each other with vividly colored powders.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

In the absence of costumes or conspicuous floats, young people used their imaginations to daub eye-catching slogans on protest signs for the youth march.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2021

It makes the stone houses drip and the wattle and daub houses look soggy.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

Mottled green daubs represent grass; lounging amoebic growths stand in for rocks, perhaps mountain peaks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

After another row or two, Daignault’s canvases become increasingly abstract, finally dissolving into blurred daubs of color against black fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

Like all besotted lovers, they seem to exist in a private realm, one that the French-Senegalese filmmaker Ramata-Toulaye Sy illuminates with cozy framing, daubs of strong colors and a bold, graphic sensibility.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

That incident aside, the only minor troubles Cathala can remember from his 28 years as an elected official are a few “very rare” trash fires and occasional daubs of graffiti.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

He was the painters idea of a man, simply daubs of paint, nothing more.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

In the northern region of Asturias, graffiti has been daubed in recent days on holiday rental properties, with the slogan: "Your business, our ruin."

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

Martine Letterie, one of the campaign's organisers, said concentration camps were increasingly the target of vandalism, including far-right imagery daubed on sites.

From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026

On the front steps, insults daubed in spray paint were directed at both Mayor Karen Bass and President Trump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

It is next to a wall daubed with arrows pointing to the "emergency room" as well as "the road to death" - humour even darker than this room.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2024

She daubed some of the steaming liquid into the split, then closed up the wood, easing it together from the root to the tip.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

But two experts who spoke to the Task and Purpose website, are more sceptical about the effectiveness of daubing tanks with symbols.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2022

Several times he said that he had finished, but after pausing a few seconds, he would return to the canvas, daubing and smudging and spilling again.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2022

Bright paintings adorn many buildings in the neigbourhood and workers are busy daubing steps and stone walls in cheerful hues of yellow and orange.

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2021

In the Republic of Ireland police are investigating the daubing of black paint on a monument to Christopher Columbus in Galway - a gift from the city of Genoa.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2020

I wasn’t sure how he was going to get his boots back on, even after daubing the worst of the blisters with a paste made of baking soda.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson