daub

Each death is a daub of paint on a vast canvas, but for the bereaved, each opens up a gaping chasm of grief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

Celebrants daub each other with vividly colored powders.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

Who can “prove” that a painting by da Vinci is worth more than a daub by the most amateur painter?

From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 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

These early villages had wattle-and- daub houses, fine pottery, and some public architecture.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

They are generally pleasant if bland landscapes, rendered in small, precise daubs of thick paint, and they begin to appear by the mid-1870s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

Amid all this are tepid daubs of period detail: fluttering lace curtains, torn crinolines, crackling fires.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2022

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

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

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

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

The statue was also daubed with graffiti during Extinction Rebellion demonstrations in 2020, for which an 18-year-old protester was given a £200 fine and told to pay £1,200 in compensation.

From BBC ● May 6, 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

I don’t know if I saw blood before turning into Mother’s arms or if I daubed it on later, in my memory, with a big brush.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

The series famously concluded with Jimmy Corkhill, played by the late Dean Sullivan, daubing a "d" on to the sign, leaving it as "Brookside Closed" before driving out of the cul-de-sac.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025

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