How to Use daub in a Sentence

daub

1 of 2 verb

• He daubed some cologne on his neck.
• He sighed deeply and daubed his eyes with a tissue.
• Daub the potatoes with a little butter.
• Various political slogans had been daubed on the walls.
• The friends daubed their hands with blood-red gloss paint, walked over to the murals, and marked them with their prints.
  — Susan McKay, The New Yorker, 26 July 2019
• Cowards daubed swastikas on her car and in the lift in her apartment block.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2017
• Around noon, a young man from Hong Kong arrived with a bag of spray-paint and daubed the first new graffiti on the white wall.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 8 Aug. 2023
• Edwina's radiant with joy as Mary and Kate daub her with the turmeric paste.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2022
• Visitors queued for gobs of mineral mud to daub on faces and arms.
  — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
• Someone had crudely daubed the keys with red and yellow tempera paint.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 July 2017
• Nuns used their blood to daub crosses on a missile silo in Colorado.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• That evening, as the sunset daubed orange across the horizon, the Limiting Factor broke the surface of the Atlantic.
  — The Economist, 6 Sep. 2019
• It also may be eaten straight, daubed on rice or anointing slices of green mango.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• Try removing some of the male flowers, peeling the petals back and daubing the pollen onto the female flowers.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 6 Feb. 2020
• One good choice is the Mussels and Frites, the popular high-stacked treatment of the bivalves in a rich tomato sauce topped by fries daubed with rich mayo-style sauce.
  — Debbi Snook, cleveland.com, 23 June 2017
• Czech dictator Klement Gottwald stands alone in a small grove, the blood-red paint still as fresh on his hands as if daubed on yesterday.
  — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Wow’s Dream Coat and daub of volumizing foam before going in with a round brush and curling iron.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2021
• Residents built their houses out of wood lattices daubed with earth.
  — National Geographic, 12 May 2020
• Outside, the paths are softened and hushed with ashy soil; inside, any boards that don’t creak have been daubed with paint, and the Abbotts must pick their way from one to the next, as if on stepping stones.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2018
• Jeffrey Webb, head chef of The Kitchen, Denver, loves to char carrot tops to make a pesto that can be daubed on roasted carrots with burrata.
  — Cindy Sutter, The Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2017
• Homeless people were sleeping in its cavernous hall, which was daubed with graffiti and stinking of urine.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
• For this week’s recipe, quarter-inch slabs of zucchini, summer squash, eggplant and onions are daubed with a little olive oil and light seasoning.
  — David Tanis, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• Confident vloggers on YouTube earn millions of views with tutorials on how to deftly daub on a full-face look.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• The lush and immaculate tableaus served up by NBC and other broadcasters are like faces that have been tastefully daubed in makeup.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2016
• Along Barking’s high street, shuttered stores daubed with graffiti sit alongside thrift stores, betting shops and barbers.
  — Jack Moore, Newsweek, 6 June 2017
• The range is mind-boggling: a sweet potato and coffee marmalade from Taiwan sat alongside a lime glitter marmalade, which looked like something a teenage girl would daub on her eyelids.
  — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Nature’s paintbrush had daubed the branches of the trees along East-West Highway, creating a scenic tableau, each element of which was eager for my attention.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2018
• Another trick some gardeners use is to daub the mealy bug clusters with rubbing alcohol.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 27 July 2019
• Batches were tied up in fishing nets and daubed with solid dirt, creating the firm bases upon which the boat is moored and that are also fertile ground for climbing tropical plants.
  — Rodney Muhumuza, ajc, 5 Mar. 2023
• Before a performance, he can be seen daubing his torso with white body paint; afterward, he is seen showering it off.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019

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daub

2 of 2 noun

• She added a few daubs of color to the painting.
• The apples of the cheeks received a daub of Blush in Nude.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Feb. 2014
• The fleshy tips of the middle three on each foot sported a daub of robin-egg blue.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
• And the dark brown fellow with the daub of white between his eyes is Little Mike, one of the premier grass runners of the past decade.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2020
• To lessen a scratch, daub on a tiny amount of rubbing alcohol and buff gently.
  — Heloise, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018
• Each daub can seem to record a discrete look, at a moment isolated in time.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2011
• Every sandwich has a base of Cuban bread, soft and airy from a daub of lard in the dough, buttered on both sides and then buttered again mid-grilling.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
• Krasner’s grief, her rage, her power are all contained within the canvas, layered in jagged streaks of dark brown and daubs of white.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 13 June 2019
• Among them is the artist’s casual habit of cleaning his paintbrushes on the flip side of the canvas, leaving spatters and daubs.
  — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 24 July 2017
• In the channel’s very first video, Plant builds a primitive wattle-and-daub hut, complete with a bed, fireplace, and chimney.
  — Sam Hill, Outside Online, 28 Oct. 2019
• Mama’s makeup had blended well over the hours, turning her face into a daub of peanut butter.
  — Venita Blackburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
• Konkel is known for topping her abstractions with mesh, often folded or crumpled, and sometimes with daubs of paint atop the netting.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• Young folk left daubs of lipstick on them, blew bubbles with them, flicked cream, banged them on the bottom of the cup to get one last taste—and repeatedly made them march up the Hill of Destiny, and plunge again, for the hell of it.
  — The Economist, 31 Dec. 2019
• The sweat and the noise, the ambition and the corruption, the blue-collar beat cops and the sea of yellow taxis driven by mouthy, outer-borough cabbies — these were the vibrant daubs of paint that made up Lumet’s palette.
  — Chris Nashawaty, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020
• Another is an untitled work from 2014: nothing but daubs of blue, connected by a sinuous smear of the same, applied wet-on-wet to a field of cream.
  — Roberta Smith, Will Heinrich and Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 22 June 2017
• Silk cords dangle from one painting; another, on red velvet, entails big daubs of concrete.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 14 June 2018
• Rustic figures The cave had collapsed some years earlier, but that didn’t obscure the rustic figures of animals, fish and humans in daubs of black, white and red that festoon the entry wall.
  — Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017
• 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.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• Riley’s painting is modest in size, 40 inches by 30 inches, and it’s largely assembled from short, confetti-like daubs of color — blue interspersed with green, gray, ocher and taupe, plus an occasional jolt of red-tile roof.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• Is there no perceptible difference between abstract paintings made by a professional artist and the daubs of children or animals?
  — Ellen Winner, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
• Iron girders support wattle-and-daub walls, and there is an enormous illuminated glass cabinet for Grass’s books—a time capsule preserved for a future civilization.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• Traditional houses, built using wattle and daub, are rare (even rarer are ceremonial outfits, like the one pictured).
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• Later, the performers elicited daubs of tone from conventional instruments, as if translating those found objects into spectral music.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
• The subtly shifting pastels of Diane Szczepaniak’s watercolor are supplemented by daubs of the composer’s music, accessible via headphones.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
• Tarantino is still practicing a cinema of saturation, demanding the audience’s total attention and bombarding us with allusions, visual jokes, flights of profane eloquence, daubs of throwaway beauty and gobs of premeditated gore.
  — New York Times, 24 July 2019
• She added a few daubs of color to the painting.
• The apples of the cheeks received a daub of Blush in Nude.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Feb. 2014
• The fleshy tips of the middle three on each foot sported a daub of robin-egg blue.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
• And the dark brown fellow with the daub of white between his eyes is Little Mike, one of the premier grass runners of the past decade.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2020
• To lessen a scratch, daub on a tiny amount of rubbing alcohol and buff gently.
  — Heloise, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018

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