daub

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

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

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 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

These early villages had wattle-and- daub houses, fine pottery, and some public architecture.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

Amid all this are tepid daubs of period detail: fluttering lace curtains, torn crinolines, crackling fires.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2022

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

Amid the long-running protests, people playing the character increasingly use different color face paint, including daubs of soot.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2021

The kid had an “honest-to-God genius” for spotting, amid the roadside rocks and grassy rubble, and the brown glow of thrown-away beer bottles, the emerald daubs that had once held 7-Up and Canada Dry.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper banned the group under terrorism laws after paint was daubed on jets at RAF Brize Norton.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025

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

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

She daubed the ointment onto the wound, picked up his hand, and examined the spidery black knots as if they were a work of art—a painting, a sculpture.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025

Prosecutors are also 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. 8, 2023

Several times he said that he had finished, but after pausing a few seconds, he would return to the canvas, daubing and smudging and spilling again.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2022

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

When early civilizations started pressing reeds to clay tablets, carving figures in stone, and daubing ink on parchment and on papyrus, number systems had already been well-established.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife