dab
Example Sentences
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"People don't realise, but cod was not the go-to fish when fish and chip shops started about 160 years ago," he said, revealing that it was dab that first made up a fish supper.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
Learning from England mistakes in Perth and his own previous troubles in Australia, Root barely scored through the covers and largely put away any intention to dab the ball behind square on the off side.
From BBC • Dec. 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 looked at his face carefully in the glass, put a big dab of lather on each cheek-bone.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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