daub

Each death is a daub of paint on a vast canvas, but for the bereaved, each opens up a gaping chasm of grief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

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

Pour some coffee and daub a toasted muffin with planetary jam: It’s breakfast with the planets.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2022

There was always a daub of anesthetic ointment, or a pill; or in severe instances, an injection that brought complete and instantaneous deliverance.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry

Mottled green daubs represent grass; lounging amoebic growths stand in for rocks, perhaps mountain peaks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

After another row or two, Daignault’s canvases become increasingly abstract, finally dissolving into blurred daubs of color against black fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

The algorithm-driven daubs of pastel color, although they never cohere into legible images, “explore the heritage of landscape painting,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022

Those short daubs of green and blue in his views of Mont-Sainte-Victoire.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021

In spite of their ready answers, the sport had been one-sided, as Kit could see by the daubs of mud that stained the rough boards of the stocks.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

Martine Letterie, one of the campaign's organisers, said concentration camps were increasingly the target of vandalism, including far-right imagery daubed on sites.

From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026

On the front steps, insults daubed in spray paint were directed at both Mayor Karen Bass and President Trump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

The statue was also daubed with graffiti during Extinction Rebellion demonstrations in 2020, for which an 18-year-old protester was given a £200 fine and told to pay £1,200 in compensation.

From BBC ● May 6, 2025

Two women have been charged with criminal damage after Charles Darwin's grave in Westminster Abbey was daubed with orange paint.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025

“Yes, sisters and brothers, the old schoolhouse, the first schoolhouse – the log schoolhouse, with its stick chimbley daubed with clay.”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

The series famously concluded with Jimmy Corkhill, played by the late Dean Sullivan, daubing a letter "d" on to the sign, leaving it as "Brookside Closed" before driving out of the cul-de-sac.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025

Punishment was swiftly meted out for any public expression of Ukrainian patriotism — displaying a flag, singing a national ballad, daubing a bit of blue-and-yellow graffiti.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

After an initiation ritual that involves daubing blood on the screen of her laptop, she contributes videos to a growing body of lore purporting to document the game’s sinister consequences.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2022

Bright paintings adorn many buildings in the neigbourhood and workers are busy daubing steps and stone walls in cheerful hues of yellow and orange.

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2021

I wasn’t sure how he was going to get his boots back on, even after daubing the worst of the blisters with a paste made of baking soda.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson