How to Use daub in a Sentence

daub

verb
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  • 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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