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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

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

Who can “prove” that a painting by da Vinci is worth more than a daub by the most amateur painter?

From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022

Above and below the church were our dwelling places, some forty cottages and huts of wattle and daub, thatch and wood, dirt and mud, all in varying shades of brown.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

That incident aside, the only minor troubles Cathala can remember from his 28 years as an elected official are a few “very rare” trash fires and occasional daubs of graffiti.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

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

Chicago Tribune critic Blair Kamin at various times described the failed Lucas Museum in Chicago as “overly abstract and under-detailed,” “a giant lump,” a “science fair volcano” and “giant daubs of Marshmallow Fluff.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2020

He stared at the daubs and streaks and runnels of red, and this newest mystery, it wasn’t a pathway of light burning lines through his mind.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Prosecutors also allege that slogans including "Free Gaza", "Free Palestine" and "Gaza is not for sale" were daubed on the course and buildings, along with offensive messages directed at Trump.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

With the campaign heading into the homestretch, Gluesenkamp Perez recently embarked on a RV tour of the 3rd Congressional District, down twisting two-lane roads, past farmland and forests daubed with red, yellow and orange.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2024

Manet tore a piece of bread in half and daubed butter onto it.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

The final episode ended with Sullivan's Jimmy Corkhill daubing a "d" on the street sign so it read "Brookside Closed", before driving out of the cul-de-sac.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2025

French prosecutors said earlier this week they were investigating whether two Moldovans who admitted to daubing Stars of David on the walls of Parisian properties did so at the behest of someone abroad.

From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2023

In the Republic of Ireland police are investigating the daubing of black paint on a monument to Christopher Columbus in Galway - a gift from the city of Genoa.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2020

AS WE WALK, we pass a man in a white skullcap standing on a ladder, daubing paint on a restaurant sign.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2020

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