dab

Example Sentences

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"The chimpanzees dab them on their wounds or chew the plants up, and then apply the chewed material to the open injury."

From BBC • May 14, 2025

That extra dab of guacamole on a burrito is likely to cost more in coming days.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2025

We’re smack dab in the middle of 2010 again.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2025

For years, as an early-warning alert system, the county agricultural people had been hanging Medfly traps hither and thither among our pretty, fructiferous trees — little A-frame-shaped cardboard doohickeys with a dab of fly attractant.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024

He casually tore off a large chunk, spread a thick dab of butter onto it, and handed it back to me.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss