daub
Example Sentences
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They are generally pleasant if bland landscapes, rendered in small, precise daubs of thick paint, and they begin to appear by the mid-1870s.
Collage may indicate motion in Furey’s work, as in two pictures of dancers whose bodies are covered in patterns, whether more flower photos or rendered with line and daub.
From Washington Post
Apartment doors have been daubed with threatening graffiti labelling the people inside a "traitor", with messages featuring the letter "Z" - a pro-Kremlin symbol of Russia's war in Ukraine.
From BBC
Now, shadowy pro-Putin figures are daubing the words “traitor to the motherland” on the doors of peace activists and others.
From Washington Post
Amid all this are tepid daubs of period detail: fluttering lace curtains, torn crinolines, crackling fires.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
