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
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
In the absence of costumes or conspicuous floats, young people used their imaginations to daub eye-catching slogans on protest signs for the youth march.
From BBC • Nov. 12, 2021
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
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