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

There’s a daub of blue paint in one corner, which he squished into the surface over a background of very, very light colors, and he’s painted the word “photo” above it.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

“Call this long?” the sailor replied, swinging far out to daub the curving tail of the dolphin.

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

They are generally pleasant if bland landscapes, rendered in small, precise daubs of thick paint, and they begin to appear by the mid-1870s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

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

Theo had little success attracting buyers, but Vincent’s works, three-dimensionally thick with their violent daubs of oil paint, became the source material for Jo’s education in modern art.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 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

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

It is next to a wall daubed with arrows pointing to the "emergency room" as well as "the road to death" - humour even darker than this room.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2024

Bast managed to look amused and annoyed at the same time as he daubed a bead of liquid from the front of his shirt.

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

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

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