daubed

past tense of daub

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of daubed 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for daubed
Verb
  • If a toilet seat is stained, go ahead and buy a replacement.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In his third season in Boulder, coach Deion Sanders continues to lament an issue that ruined his first season and stained his second.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Blood was smeared throughout the business.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Shohreh Dupuis left her job as city manager of Laguna Beach two years ago, in the wake of a squabble with a city council member, a threat of a harassment lawsuit, and an inquiry into into how her house came to be smeared with feces.
    Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Trader Joe’s Cajun style blackened chicken breast fettuccine alfredo is also on the list but only affects four states – Texas not included.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Recalled Trader Joe's pasta sold in Arizona The CDC said listeria contaminated products sold at Trader Joe's were the store's Trader Joe’s Cajun style blackened chicken breast fettucine alfredo, contained in a plastic tray.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The other is a sculpture, cast from bronze by Vija Celmins and painted to match the original.
    Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The ceiling and surrounding walls are painted Valspar Sweet Clover—a soft green that pulls out the verdant hues in the wallpaper pattern (Nathan Turner's Cowboy Toile).
    Monika Biegler Eyers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • At Dilara Findikoglu, models looked like ladies in waiting that had risen from the dead; wearing antiquated corsetry that was dirtied and torn.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Detroit paced the Central for almost the entire season … only to trip over itself, fall down a flight of stairs coated in aioli, and land on a whoopee cushion in front of its crush.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Line a sheet pan with wax or parchment paper coated with cooking spray.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As Declan spoke, a player, eye black smudged, hair sopping, stopped and hugged his father tightly.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2025
  • On the Blumarine spring 2026 runway in Milan on Friday, models tapped into their inner bohemian-fairy party girl personas with charcoal eyeliner smudged around their eyes, faded hues on their lips and tired waves in their hair.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Daubed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daubed. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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