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

Scully finds analogues in his home place for larger themes from art history, so in his 2015 “Doric Blue and Blue,” the grid resolves into the pure brushstroke, the squarish daub of Cézanne.

From Washington Post • May 27, 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