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How to use daub in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Daub means excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction. Example: “The artist just seemed to daub on paint at random and suddenly there was a painting.”

Examples of daub by meaning

nounA crude or amateurish painting.

  • Ah, but what if he penned what in the art schools they call an 'artist's statement' wherein he explained the relation of his gibberish or his daubs to the mainstream of art or writing?2008, Joseph Agassi, Ian Charles Jarvie, A Critical Rationalist Aesthetics, page 16

verbTo apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.

  • The artist just seemed to daub on paint at random and suddenly there was a painting.
  • They were expecting to see me, she said, daubing paint on the canvas and stepping back to gauge the effect.1969, Chaim Potok, The Promise, New York: Fawcett Crest, Book 3, Chapter 16, p. 379
  • Unfortunately, one side of the new five-car train is daubed in graffiti, having been vandalised in Wembley Yard, en route from Switzerland.2023 March 8, “Network News: First Tyne & Wear Metro '555' already 'tagged'”, in RAIL, number 978, page 9

More sentences with daub

  • Daub has made known the engagement of her daughter, Miss Margit Ann Daub, to G.1965 October 24, “G. Leigh Corby to Wed Miss Margit Ann Daub”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry Margit
  • The first, or acidic, stick is daubed on until no more stain appears on the undercloth.1947 May, “Stain-removing sticks”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 87, number 5, page 113. From the entry undercloth
  • Random amorphous bits of fired clay, temperless and not identifiable as wall daub, were frequently encountered in the excavations.2010, Vernon James Knight, H. Edwin Jackson, Susan L. Scott, Mound Excavations at Moundville, page 160. From the entry temperless
  • Say, every time that little Jane daubed some whitewash on her little nosie, she gave that grandstand the squints.1921 November, Fannie Hurst, “The Vertical City”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXXI, number 5, page 37, column 2. From the entry nosie
  • “Rolling Stone” is spacious and ethereal but not directionless — it is R&B that privileges mood over structure, soft daubs of feeling over authoritative belting.2022 July 20, Jon Caramanica, “R&B That Sweats, Emotionally and Physically”, in The New York Times. From the entry privilege
  • Hélène Louvart gives the film the daubed, traffic-light palette of a ripe mango; were it possible, you’d expect it to have an aroma to match.2019 May 25, Guy Lodge, “Film Review: ‘The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão’”, in Variety. From the entry DP
  • A week ago, she had daubed them all with body paint—Hugh and Robert red with spots, even the solemn Charles a zizzy green.2012, Wendy Perriam, Born of Woman. From the entry zizzy
  • The ogac, ribbed sculpin, spatulate sculpin, shorthorn sculpin, spinyhook sculpin, archer eelpout, pale eelpout, and daubed shanny are included in this assemblage.2011, Chukchi Sea Planning Area: Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193 in the Chukchi Sea, Alaska: Revised Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact…. From the entry ogac
  • The Italian enthusiasm for racing leads enthusiasts to daub the names of their favorite competitors on walls, on houses, on anything daubable.1936, The National Geographic Magazine, volume 70, page 386. From the entry daubable
  • But you never saw such daubs.1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 15, in The Moon and Sixpence. From the entry potter about
  • And it is a poor daub besides," the Emperor rejoined scornfully, as he stalked out of the gallery without worthying the artist with a look.1908, Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, The court of Russia in the nineteenth century. From the entry worthy
  • We drive west into the Wallachian countryside, past rows of daub- and-wattle houses, plastered with a blue wash, clustered together along the road, aspiring to villagehood.2004, Robin Peck, Sculpture, A Journey To The Circumference Of The Earth, page 34. From the entry villagehood
  • At carnival he is the leaping, prancing masker, his body daubed with black or blue paint, sometimes with molasses, who threatens to besmear spectators unless they pay him off.1972, Errol Hill, The Trinidad Carnival: Mandate for a National Theatre, Austin, Tx.; London: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 109…. From the entry jab molassie
  • The keeping eunuchs were at back, solemn in stately rows, bespeared and bescimitared, the Danish, Irish, and German of their countenances lost in the daub which made them swart.1905, Samuel Major Gardenhire, The Silence of Mrs. Harrold - Page 277. From the entry swart

Meaning of daub

  1. noun Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
  2. noun A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
  3. noun A crude or amateurish painting.

Full definition of daub

Questions about daub in a sentence

How do you use daub in a sentence?
Daub is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The artist just seemed to daub on paint at random and suddenly there was a painting.”
What is a short sentence with daub?
“But you never saw such daubs.”
What does daub mean?
Daub means excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.

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