dauber

Example Sentences

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On the front lines against invasive pests, Mr. Spichiger, who said he is “older than some,” has chalked up stings from several types of honeybees, mud daubers, bald-faced hornets and yellow jackets.

From Washington Times • Aug. 30, 2020

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, a leading art theorist, labeled them “ciphers of regression” — insignificant, backward daubers who would soon disappear.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2017

For a while, the Indonesian painter and sculptor looked like he was being gently left behind by the country's booming arts scene, crowded with young daubers on the make.

From Time • Jul. 21, 2010

The nests of the closely related pipe-organ daubers were always as free of radioactivity as if nuclear phys ics had never come to Tennessee.

From Time Magazine Archive

The courtyard is full of ants, the bushes full of wasps and dirt daubers.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle