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
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
It is a warm winter day, as warm as a spring day in England, and around the fort, men are outside, working on everything from repairing wattle and daub walls to shucking corn.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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