dab

Example Sentences

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For the last few days, smack dab in the middle of his long-awaited breakthrough at USC, Arenas was sick.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

He passed Ponting with a trademark dab through point.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2025

"The chimpanzees dab them on their wounds or chew the plants up, and then apply the chewed material to the open injury."

From BBC • May 14, 2025

Everyone’s favorite analog diarist is smack dab in the middle of a universe ruled by tech.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2025

Her hair was done up in steel rollers and there was a white dab of face cream on a little place under her chin where a pimple had come out.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers