daub

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026

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 can be intimate and half-hidden, a discreet daub at the wrists, a faint pulse when a stranger walks by.

From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2021

Above and below the church were our dwelling places, some forty cottages and huts of wattle and daub, thatch and wood, dirt and mud, all in varying shades of brown.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

The painter adds, as grace notes, eight daubs of red, two no larger than a speck, to the prevailing gray.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

The algorithm-driven daubs of pastel color, although they never cohere into legible images, “explore the heritage of landscape painting,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022

Amid the long-running protests, people playing the character increasingly use different color face paint, including daubs of soot.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2021

Theo had little success attracting buyers, but Vincent’s works, three-dimensionally thick with their violent daubs of oil paint, became the source material for Jo’s education in modern art.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2021

The kid had an “honest-to-God genius” for spotting, amid the roadside rocks and grassy rubble, and the brown glow of thrown-away beer bottles, the emerald daubs that had once held 7-Up and Canada Dry.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper banned the group under terrorism laws after paint was daubed on jets at RAF Brize Norton.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025

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

She mended our clothes torn by the barbed-wire fences, daubed our cuts and scrapes with iodine, and shook her head.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

French prosecutors said earlier this week they were investigating whether two Moldovans who admitted to daubing Stars of David on the walls of Parisian properties did so at the behest of someone abroad.

From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2023

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

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

AS WE WALK, we pass a man in a white skullcap standing on a ladder, daubing paint on a restaurant sign.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2020

When early civilizations started pressing reeds to clay tablets, carving figures in stone, and daubing ink on parchment and on papyrus, number systems had already been well-established.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife