How to Use daub in a Sentence

daub

1 of 2 verb

• He daubed some cologne on his neck.
• He sighed deeply and daubed his eyes with a tissue.
• Daub the potatoes with a little butter.
• Various political slogans had been daubed on the walls.
• Cowards daubed swastikas on her car and in the lift in her apartment block.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2017
• The friends daubed their hands with blood-red gloss paint, walked over to the murals, and marked them with their prints.
  — Susan McKay, The New Yorker, 26 July 2019
• Visitors queued for gobs of mineral mud to daub on faces and arms.
  — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
• It also may be eaten straight, daubed on rice or anointing slices of green mango.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• Someone had crudely daubed the keys with red and yellow tempera paint.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 July 2017
• Residents built their houses out of wood lattices daubed with earth.
  — National Geographic, 12 May 2020
• Nuns used their blood to daub crosses on a missile silo in Colorado.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• Edwina's radiant with joy as Mary and Kate daub her with the turmeric paste.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2022
• Homeless people were sleeping in its cavernous hall, which was daubed with graffiti and stinking of urine.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
• Around noon, a young man from Hong Kong arrived with a bag of spray-paint and daubed the first new graffiti on the white wall.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 8 Aug. 2023
• As part of her job, Angèle needs to daub makeup on the models’ feet, blistered from the torturous heels they’re forced to wear.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 June 2026
• Try removing some of the male flowers, peeling the petals back and daubing the pollen onto the female flowers.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 6 Feb. 2020
• Another trick some gardeners use is to daub the mealy bug clusters with rubbing alcohol.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 27 July 2019
• Wow’s Dream Coat and daub of volumizing foam before going in with a round brush and curling iron.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2021
• Before a performance, he can be seen daubing his torso with white body paint; afterward, he is seen showering it off.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
• Czech dictator Klement Gottwald stands alone in a small grove, the blood-red paint still as fresh on his hands as if daubed on yesterday.
  — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• For this week’s recipe, quarter-inch slabs of zucchini, summer squash, eggplant and onions are daubed with a little olive oil and light seasoning.
  — David Tanis, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• Along Barking’s high street, shuttered stores daubed with graffiti sit alongside thrift stores, betting shops and barbers.
  — Jack Moore, Newsweek, 6 June 2017
• Researchers expected the dogs to pay most attention to the cat doll, particularly when daubed with the feline scent.
  — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
• But there is a distinction, Kutwala said, between flying flags from one’s own property and daubing paint across the town.
  — Olivia Kemp, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
• Confident vloggers on YouTube earn millions of views with tutorials on how to deftly daub on a full-face look.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• The third series, created by dripping and daubing paint on large unstretched canvases, was in evidence as a pile draped over a table.
  — Briana Miller | , oregonlive, 10 Mar. 2023
• Huge metal security fences are erected along sidewalks daubed with outsized yellow feet for guiding visitors to some of the 2 sq.
  — Time, 11 June 2018
• One of them, at the centre of a group outside Ex Convento del Carmen, has been thickly daubed with red paint, as if to look like blood.
  — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 June 2026
• Batches were tied up in fishing nets and daubed with solid dirt, creating the firm bases upon which the boat is moored and that are also fertile ground for climbing tropical plants.
  — Rodney Muhumuza, ajc, 5 Mar. 2023
• Outside, the paths are softened and hushed with ashy soil; inside, any boards that don’t creak have been daubed with paint, and the Abbotts must pick their way from one to the next, as if on stepping stones.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2018

daub

2 of 2 noun

• She added a few daubs of color to the painting.
• The fleshy tips of the middle three on each foot sported a daub of robin-egg blue.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
• Each daub can seem to record a discrete look, at a moment isolated in time.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2011
• To lessen a scratch, daub on a tiny amount of rubbing alcohol and buff gently.
  — Heloise, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018
• Each death is a daub of paint on a vast canvas, but for the bereaved, each opens up a gaping chasm of grief.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Or the paint daubs of an impressionist painting.
  — Alexis Benveniste, Architectural Digest, 21 Nov. 2025
• Mama’s makeup had blended well over the hours, turning her face into a daub of peanut butter.
  — Venita Blackburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
• The background resembles flames or perhaps a sunrise with thick orange daubs of paint.
  — Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
• Some of the pictures overlay figures rendered with black lines atop fields of soft, drippy daubs in a rainbow of hues.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Actually, the artist daubs on clear Mylar, which is not absorbent.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• Krasner’s grief, her rage, her power are all contained within the canvas, layered in jagged streaks of dark brown and daubs of white.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 13 June 2019
• Silk cords dangle from one painting; another, on red velvet, entails big daubs of concrete.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 14 June 2018
• One church staffer presses a Bible to her forehead while another daubs her stomach with a pocket-size vial of holy oil.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
• Every sandwich has a base of Cuban bread, soft and airy from a daub of lard in the dough, buttered on both sides and then buttered again mid-grilling.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
• Among them is the artist’s casual habit of cleaning his paintbrushes on the flip side of the canvas, leaving spatters and daubs.
  — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 24 July 2017
• Konkel is known for topping her abstractions with mesh, often folded or crumpled, and sometimes with daubs of paint atop the netting.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• And the dark brown fellow with the daub of white between his eyes is Little Mike, one of the premier grass runners of the past decade.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2020
• And the dark brown fellow with the daub of white between his eyes is Little Mike, one of the premier grass runners of the past decade.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2020
• In the channel’s very first video, Plant builds a primitive wattle-and-daub hut, complete with a bed, fireplace, and chimney.
  — Sam Hill, Outside Online, 28 Oct. 2019
• 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.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• The breakfast spread includes mocha coffee in a silver pot, croissants, and pain au chocolat, a row of homemade jams like bright daubs of paint, yogurt, and apple purée, all served on rosebud china.
  — Kate Maxwell, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2022
• Also known as a gradient roll, the color effect is produced by placing daubs of differently hued ink on a roller and blending the discrete colors as they’re applied.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• Is there no perceptible difference between abstract paintings made by a professional artist and the daubs of children or animals?
  — Ellen Winner, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
• Traditional houses, built using wattle and daub, are rare (even rarer are ceremonial outfits, like the one pictured).
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• Rustic figures The cave had collapsed some years earlier, but that didn’t obscure the rustic figures of animals, fish and humans in daubs of black, white and red that festoon the entry wall.
  — Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017
• Later, the performers elicited daubs of tone from conventional instruments, as if translating those found objects into spectral music.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
• Shimmery Touches Steve Granitz Details like an extra layer of blush and daubs of strategic shimmer help to further wedding makeup.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2025
• The sweat and the noise, the ambition and the corruption, the blue-collar beat cops and the sea of yellow taxis driven by mouthy, outer-borough cabbies — these were the vibrant daubs of paint that made up Lumet’s palette.
  — Chris Nashawaty, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020
• The little daubs that represent passersby are miracles of characterization.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Iron girders support wattle-and-daub walls, and there is an enormous illuminated glass cabinet for Grass’s books—a time capsule preserved for a future civilization.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017