daub
Example Sentences
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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
They're checking that their daub of Harry Kane, envisaged to occupy an entire wall, is complete.
From BBC • May 28, 2023
Celebrants daub each other with vividly colored powders.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2022
Visitors queued for gobs of mineral mud to daub on faces and arms.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2021
So many weeks we spent cutting trees, splitting clapboard, tying thatch, making wattle and daub.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
