How To Use Daub In A Sentence

There have been several attempts to set fire to the building and graffiti has been daubed on the walls on a number of occasions.
They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
An scrape of whiskers or daub of toothpaste unrinsed in the bathroom sink. Ann, meet Bob
One theory is that ‘a male model was daubed with paint and wrapped in the sheet to create the shadowy figure of Christ.’
Women's sanitary products were found behind a drinks cooler and other parts of the office and spit was daubed on desks. Times, Sunday Times

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Roger Daltrey, frontman of The Who, wore a T-shirt proclaiming Davis's innocence, with the convicted man's name daubed across railway and road bridges. BBC News - Home
A can of paint had been daubed over his car. The Sun
Her skirt was bedaubed with cheap finery.
She daubed the red colour onto her nails.
He created a spare, white-daubed, timber-framed presentation that evokes a pagan feeling, yet is modern in offering immediate access to the text. A British Monarch Crosses the Atlantic
The Three Horseshoes Mall has seen an increase in crime including broken drainpipes, smashed bottles and graffiti daubed on shop windows.
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But in the next 12 months alone, there is a need for almost 200 lime plasterers, around 140 wattle and daub craftspeople, over 100 glaziers and almost 60 cob builders and dry stone wallers.
The museum recently paid £25 million for this; amateur daubers may feel they could have just as well if only they'd had a free weekend…
Many of the buildings are faced with light-hued stone or stucco daubed with whitewash, the doors and window frames of some painted blue-the color for good luck.
Expect boulders as high as houses eroded into weird shapes, caves daubed with prehistoric paintings and spectacular displays of springtime orchids. Times, Sunday Times
daub paint onto the wall
Participants were daubed with red paint to appear victims of terrible injuries. The Sun
In the corner someone had daubed red paint on the arms of a goth mannequin with leather wrist bands, a nod to the obsession with self-harm that features in many of the songs with which its teenage customers are familiar.
Pearl Hand and I shared a small cabin consisting of cane walls daubed with mud to keep the wind out. Fire The Sky
The voice and face of his dearest friend and advisor vanished, and Roy proceeded to remove his paint-bedaubed smock and brush his hair, so as to present a somewhat better appearance when the professor arrived. "The Golden Girl of Munan" by Harl Vincent, part 1
The color of the middle form is mainly white with daubs of yellow.
Martin Eadon, a director in London, had his walls daubed with slogans.
The same protection is accorded to a casual letter or an entry in a diary and to the most valuable poem or essay, to a botch or daub and a masterpiece.
The baby had daubed butter all over its hair and face.
Walls were daubed with satanic graffiti. Times, Sunday Times
Whenever anyone yelled the magic "bingo," people groaned and just about threw their daubers around the room.
Mr Daubney had been busy with a continuous stream of traffic.
I'd welcome examples to add to my collection of courts privileging language in the Daubert trilogy over the text of new Rule 702.
Main courses included best end of lamb with shallot purée and rosemary jus, and daube of beef with pomme purée and root vegetables.
Chief Supt Peter Driver, of Stockport police, said of Stockport's new war on the daubers: ‘The database will prove to be a very useful tool in combating graffiti which is a problem across the borough.’
Here you sleep enclosed by 600-year-old timbers with the original wattle and daub infill. Times, Sunday Times
Cob, rammed earth, straw, wattle & daub share the stage with papercrete, Earthships, earthbags and entire adobe homes fired to become ceramic, to name just a few.
Her dark dress has a creamy collar and cuffs, daubed with salmon trim.
Often the point was to signal, ‘I was here; I did this; I killed this prey; I saw this pretty thing’ - like a graffiti dauber writing, ‘Kilroy was here’ at any spot he considers significant.
The graffiti, which was daubed on the creamery wall read: ‘Martin Ferris is here to stay‘.
They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
Walls in Jmayl were daubed with the slogan "Only God and Muammar. Libya rebels take prime minister's hometown
Symbols and letters in mustard yellow and white were daubed on seats and rocks in the wooded ravine off Wells Road.
A charming SOUBRETTE, great Marie Kendall, with dauby cheeks and lifted skirt smiled daubily from her poster upon William Ulysses
Solitary species such as cicada killers, carpenter bees, digger wasps and mud daubers use their stingers to subdue the insects and spiders upon which they prey.
He uses a brush, a palette knife or his fingers to daub the oil pigments on to the canvas as thickly as mashed potato.
Featuring delicate daubs of paint that created elegant dotted lines, the geometrical discipline of these lines imposed themselves on near evanescent landscapes.
Protesters in rigid inflatable boats also daubed the words ‘No War’ on Dutch cargo ship Magdalena Green.
It was reported as this newspaper went to press that Feltham Assembly Hall had been daubed with National Front supporting graffiti.
Painted blue and white, with rotors on roof and bootlid and daubed with sponsor's decals, the four drove out of the St Mary's League's Club carpark on Saturday, August 2.
Criminals are costing British businesses more than £1.3bn a year as traders live in fear of louts who steal from their shops, daub graffiti on their walls or subject them to intimidation.
She and two friends once paraded in wedding gowns daubed with red paint to highlight domestic violence. Times, Sunday Times
This new settlement had substantial rectangular houses, made of mud brick or timber and daub on stone foundations.
Farm machinery was sabotaged, cars were daubed with paint stripper and the home windows of staff were smashed.
The slogan was daubed with black paint on the Mercedes, which was parked outside their home in Blacklion, Cavan.
Protesters also daubed graffiti on walls. The Sun
She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is, beyond our element we know nothing. The Merry Wives of Windsor
The perimeter fence was also set ablaze, windows smashed, plants destroyed and buildings daubed with graffiti.
She confesses to wearing an occasional daub of men's cologne so as to seem tomboyish and to using masking tape at night to flatten her bouncy curls. The Scary Future, the Embarrassing Past
In 3,000 words or so of journalistic pointillism, McGeough paints his picture of America's predatory cynicism with artful little dabs and daubs of well-placed fact.
Their features are incognizable so disfigured are they with stripes and daubs in red, white, black and sometimes yellow. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)
Sydney Opera House staff inspect the ‘no war’ slogan daubed on the building by protesters.
Farm machinery was sabotaged, cars were daubed with paint stripper and the home windows of staff were smashed.
A pair of shackles and chilling messages daubed on the walls have already been uncovered from the first two secret chambers at the site. The Sun
The walls daubed with her name and accuse the girl of betrayal.
It's a natural assumption that his daubs and the words he writes in them and alongside them somehow inform one another, but that's to ignore the more telling effect writing has in his early work.
This man always impresses me with respect, he is so manly, so sweet-tempered, so faithful, so disdainful of all appearances, excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock bedaubed with the soil of the field, so honest withal, that he always needs to be watched lest he should cheat himself. Uncollected Prose
If, however, one of these renders the original with all the skill and precision of a Salvador Dali, is he to be denied a copyright where a mere dauber is not?
A classroom was trashed and walls were daubed with graffiti spray before the wooden library door was set alight.
But as common and familiar as these dishes are here in France, have any of them found their way into the national cuisine alongside the daube and the coq au vin or are they still considered foreign fare? Jamie Schler: Football, Food and Nationality
These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with white paint, their skins filthy and greasy, their hair entangled, their voices discordant, and their gestures violent.
We need food' was daubed on a wall at the city's port. Times, Sunday Times
The previous user had also daubed the ducts along the roof of Biff's control bubble with vermilion slogans.
Here he found himself almost equally helpless; for what male wit is adequate to the thousand little coquetries practised in such arrangements? how can masculine eyes judge of the degree of demi-jour which is to be admitted into a decorated apartment, or discriminate where the broad light should be suffered to fall on a tolerable picture, where it should be excluded, lest the stiff daub of a periwigged grandsire should become too rigidly prominent? Saint Ronan's Well
Venus flanked a somewhat prim peeress by Hoppner; a landscape that smacked of Gainsborough was the companion of a dauby moonlight, that must have figured in the last exhibition; and insipid Roman matrons by Henrietta Temple A Love Story
The effect is like bedaubing a marble statue with paint.
Symbols and letters in mustard yellow and white were daubed on seats and rocks in the wooded ravine off Wells Road.
Was this the MSM, craven as ever, slavishly following the lead of the artistocracy - those who decide which frauds and daubs, which slabs of self-obsessed upper-middle-class logorrhea - constitute Art and Literature? Tony Hendra: George Carlin: The Last Words You Can't Say on Television
This daub could have come from one of three distinct periods.
WAVELAND - Amid a cluster of vibrant-hued daubers, 36 playing cards and a chilled soda at her usual table, bingo regular Dee Darensbourg gazes at the illuminated 1960s-style callboard as she anticipates her winning number. Homepage
The make-up woman daubed mock blood on Jeremy.
The Metropolitan police choose to stand back from the protest until one group of protesters attacks the fast food restaurant and daubs slogans on the Cenotaph.
The Three Horseshoes Mall has seen an increase in crime including broken drainpipes, smashed bottles and graffiti daubed on shop windows.
She and two friends once paraded in wedding gowns daubed with red paint to highlight domestic violence. Times, Sunday Times
This would be a fine accompaniment to a meal-sized toasted honey baked ham bagel, also filled with thick cut Swiss cheese, whole grain mustard, crisp lettuce and a daub of herb-speckled mayonnaise.
His fair locks, which the Russian was used to wash every morning, he was now bidden to bedaub with grease and flour, while he energetically cursed the black spatterdashes which it took him an hour to button every morning. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
The babblings and squigglings may be pretty or ugly, may carry certain associative meanings, (I think “e” is sort of … endearingly cute as a visual figurae, in its smiley muppetyness,) but these figurae are mostly just jabber and daubings until they’re built-up into morphemes, the smallest units that can have meaning. Archive 2009-07-01
Expect boulders as high as houses eroded into weird shapes, caves daubed with prehistoric paintings and spectacular displays of springtime orchids. Times, Sunday Times
All this madness yet proceeds from ourselves, the main engine which batters us is from others, we are merely passive in this business: from a company of parasites and flatterers, that with immoderate praise, and bombast epithets, glossing titles, false eulogiums, so bedaub and applaud, gild over many a silly and undeserving man, that they clap him quite out of his wits. Anatomy of Melancholy
I wasn't having a go at you or Daubney, n, my rage is aimed at the sick rabble - some of them very educated rabble too - on some of these forums who will not allow justice to take its course. The Best Possible taste
Expect boulders as high as houses eroded into weird shapes, caves daubed with prehistoric paintings and spectacular displays of springtime orchids. Times, Sunday Times
A pair of shackles and chilling messages daubed on the walls have already been uncovered from the first two secret chambers at the site. The Sun
Entering, he saw the floor and walls besprent with recent blood, and, worst of all, the child's cradle was overturned; the coverlet was torn and all was daubed with blood.
And she claims her home was daubed with paint, and she has been pelted with stones.
Homes are constructed of waddle and daub (woven sticks and mud) with thatched roofs.
How many weird skinny dogs with spindly legs, cow spots and Dalmation daubs can there be in this world?
If he wasn't putting the hairy tribesmen of Germania to the sword, he was massacring the Gaulish ranks at Alesia in modern-day France or striking terror into the woad-daubed hordes of Britain. Boardroom Conquerors
Lightsome show film of translucent lacteal eye, need not be cleaned or rip off, can sleep after direct daub.
Walls were of planks or wattle and daub (essentially clay reinforced with branches). A Guide to Megalithic Ireland
But the event coincided with her brief foray into the world of the blonde, a change of hair colour which saw her daubed as tarty, attention-seeking and vacuous-looking.
Did you come back to find anything daubed on your walls?
He daubed paint on the wall.
Her neck was bedaubed with cheap necklace.
Graffiti are daubed across the surrounding walls and the car park is littered with rubbish and glass. The Sun
Using a paper towel, she daubs a thick coat on the bark of the trees and shrubs she wants protected.
In the background, just visible, slogans can be seen daubed on the ruins and on banners hanging from windows.
On it, someone has daubed the ineludible, monstrous question: Why do I do this every day? The currents of dread
So they slaughter a goat, daub Joseph's coat of many colours with blood and return to their father, feigning great sorrow at the unfortunate death of their poor brother Joseph.
While dressing for the performance of their ‘mystery’, the monks playing the Madwoman, the Ferryman and the Traveller are daubed with Christ's stigmata.
He let his fork rest gently on his china plate, food still pierced on its prongs, a look of consideration daubed onto his face.
The anthropoid apes can easily break a cocoanut with their teeth, and Guyot-Daubes thinks that possibly a gorilla has a jaw-force of 200 pounds. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The painter's torso, made of a palette or shield that trails wings or oars, is splattered with highly stylized daubs of paint that evoke not only paint but also open wounds, swooping birds or, even, bird droppings.
Her skirt was bedaubed with cheap finery.
daub the ceiling with plaster
Parrocel, whom you call a dauber, and who for that matter is a dauber, if you compare him to Vernet, is still a man of rare talent relatively to the multitude of those who have flung up the career in which they started with him. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
Though we smile to ourselves, at least ironically, when parasites bedaub us with false encomiums, as many princes cannot choose but do, Quum tale quid nihil intra se repererint, when they know they come as far short, as a mouse to an elephant, of any such virtues; yet it doth us good. Anatomy of Melancholy
His face was bedaubed with mud.
He daubed more polish on to a dark splatter on the toe.
In a rosery of Fetter lane of Gerard, herbalist, he walks, greyedauburn. Ulysses
The cracks in the walls are snugly filled with "daubing" and then the walls are covered with heavy gray building-paper, which makes the room very warm, and I really like the appearance. Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Carpenter crossed the carpeted floor of the Cathedral's dark interior and stopped only to genuflect wearily, and daub his fingers in the font once more.
Blanch wrote: ‘What detestable daubs his pictures are to be sure.’
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Recently, graffiti has been daubed on walls and an elderly resident has suffered a broken window.
In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin, holey plywood daubed in graffiti.
The hankie arrived, gently daubing at the corner of my eye, at the precise moment the first tear fell. The Bird House
Thick daubs and spatters of paint represent the fruit and jugs.
A glass or two of wine and a Crock-Pot turned cheap cuts of meat into daube Provençal while she was at work; bacon, leeks, and cream you only need a touch of each transformed the proletarian potato into a queen. Day of Honey
The child's face was bedaubed with chocolate.
The number had been daubed on the wall in off-white emulsion paint next to the boarded up front door.
My main course was a daube of beef with a garniture of grand-mère. Times, Sunday Times
They passed Dan Lowry's musichall where Marie Kendall, charming soubrette, smiled on them from a poster a dauby smile. Ulysses
Right before the flash she would kiss him, bedaubing his stoic cheek with bright lipstick.
Some of the natives had really climbed the baobab, and now they were seen rising on all sides, winding along the boughs like reptiles, and advancing slowly but surely, all the time plainly enough discernible, not merely to the eye but to the nostrils, by the horrible odors of the rancid grease with which they bedaub their bodies. Five Weeks in a Balloon
Last year, the theme was being daubed with blue paint. Times, Sunday Times
Saxony for having had his room 'bedaubed' by Bendemann! My Life — Volume 1
Her neck was bedaubed with cheap necklace.
We need food' was daubed on a wall at the city's port. Times, Sunday Times
When, at the end of the campaign, John McCain daubed Obama with the tag of “redistributionist,” Obama aides were relieved to find that the label did not change voters’ perception of Obama. Race Over?
Slogans were daubed on the pavement including, ‘What sort of liberators use depleted uranium, napalm, cluster bombs?’
General rules they can lay down, as poets can the elements of their own trade; but these rules are at the command of the veriest daub or rhymester; the manifold development of them to results almost divine remaining, even to those who achieve it in either walk, evasive and untraceable. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878
The incidents include verbal abuse, slogans daubed on walls and physical assaults.
Until now residents and businesses have had to pay the council to use its high-pressure water jets to remove any graffiti daubed on their property.
Unkempt and disordered, bedaubed with mud that had dried upon him, and with much of his clothing torn to rags, he had but just dropped into his easy – chair, when Mr. Grewgious stood before him. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
St Bride's Primary School off the Lisburn Road in south Belfast had a classroom damaged by fire and four cars outside and walls were daubed with paint.
The mystery was the origin of the large quantities of daub.
Beef with carrots was braised to a deep, glossy brown, like a daube, but was a bit on the ragged side and less melting than would be perfect.
He sighed, and as they walked by the violet margent of the evening waves, he offered up in silence an earnest prayer that Daubeny might live. St. Winifred's, or The World of School
Protesters also daubed graffiti on walls. The Sun
Highlights include the cassoulet, a real daube of beef and a proper fish pie. Times, Sunday Times
They left behind walls daubed with mocking graffiti. Times, Sunday Times
Central to the work is a big fir tree defined by hastily applied daubs of paint.
Savour this red's ripe, leathery, sour pickled cherry and sweet gamey, plummy fruit with a rich daube. Times, Sunday Times
Wattle and daub construction, the use of cisterns to collect water, the ‘Big Yard’ or common area, and verandas and porches can be traced to Africa.
Some large dauby old paintings gave a color to the dimness, there were Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
Since May 16, hunting activists have daubed paint in nine different places around York, Selby and Ryedale.
The intruders forced their way into the house through the back door in the early hours of Tuesday morning, daubing graffiti on walls, smashing windows and throwing paint over the furniture.
Yet the leafy bamboo is as desiccated as fake stalks would be, and the birds are casually carved chunks of wood with a few daubs of color: not lifelike models but schematic signs of birdhood.
Participants were daubed with red paint to appear victims of terrible injuries. The Sun
In addition to the disturbances, graffiti had been daubed on the intercom and rubbish strewn in the street outside. The Sun
Fireworks were thrown at them, paint was daubed on their car, their puppy was pelted with bricks and there were arson attacks on their home.
Daubing at the deep furrows which would no doubt leave long, ugly scars, I eased myself into a chair.
A can of paint had been daubed over his car. The Sun
Supported by Youthful red-clad males and females with twin white-cross flags daubed on each cheek, shod in comfortable shoes and with the odd scarlet, acrylic perm wig worn as a badge of Swiss humour.
A blue line had been daubed across his forehead and round his short white hair.
‘Smith Out’ read the graffiti daubed on wall at the Bellefield training ground as the first-team squad reported back for duty.
Slather the daub over the surface of the wattle, attempting to seal any cracks to make the structure ‘weatherproof.’
On another occasion, Turner thought his own work appeared dull next to Constable's, so he added a daub of red paint to an otherwise grey landscape.
They left behind walls daubed with mocking graffiti. Times, Sunday Times
Don't you realise that Steve Martin is JUST NOT FUNNY ANYMORE?! while burning effigies of Mr Loach, and boycotting his films, and daubing obscenities on his house, and beating up his children, can he blame them? Editorial: Why Ken Loach should apologise for High School Musical 3
Wattle and daub construction, the use of cisterns to collect water, the ‘Big Yard’ or common area, and verandas and porches can be traced to Africa.
Poems that make us love this gaudy, mother-scented, mud-bedaubed language of ours. Mental multivitamin
Next to them sit my extra large casserole dishes for party daube, fish pie and moussaka. Times, Sunday Times
Last year, the theme was being daubed with blue paint. Times, Sunday Times
The floor zone of the secondstage house was remarkably well defined because the walls and roof of the house had burned and collapsed into the basin, in places sealing the floor with carbonized timbers and daub.
But besides the hypocrisy of merely outwardly "daubing" to make the wall look fair (Mt 23: 27, 29; Ac 23: 3), there is implied the unsoundness of the wall from the absence of true uniting cement; the "untempered cement" answering to the lie of the prophets, who say, in support of their prophecies, "Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord hath not spoken Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
They left behind walls daubed with mocking graffiti. Times, Sunday Times
Walls were daubed with satanic graffiti. Times, Sunday Times
Methodically daubing the treacly floor paint all over the architect's white and grey glaze walls, the waffle-textured bamboo wallpaper, the skylights, the portholes, the glass, bricks and the panora-fenestrals.
BLOOM: _ (A charming soubrette with dauby cheeks, mustard hair and large male hands and nose, leering mouth) _ I tried her things on only twice, Ulysses
When the children were brought back dirty, greasy, bedaubed, and so tired that they could hardly hold up their little heads, her indignation knew no bounds, and as she was perfectly fearless.
They left behind walls daubed with mocking graffiti. Times, Sunday Times
And it is only a minority, too, who would be so ignorant as to assume that anyone who is not white is from Pakistan, which was the claim made by the graffiti daubers.
Women's sanitary products were found behind a drinks cooler and other parts of the office and spit was daubed on desks. Times, Sunday Times
A stone's cast away stood a little mott of coma trees; beneath it a _jacal_ such as the Mexicans erect -- a one-room house of upright poles daubed with clay and roofed with grass or tule reeds. Roads of Destiny
And there was nothing personal in this to render it at all embarrassing, for even Tom, whose power of observation was by no means remarkable, knew from the energy with which she did it that she would have fondled any hand, no matter how bedaubed or dyed, that had broken the head of Jonas Chuzzlewit. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
After the leveling was completed, a ‘dauber’ finished bricking up the oven, and applied, or daubed, ‘mud’ on the surface of the bricks.
The house in which I spent the greater portion of my youth was a mansion of the olden time, whose pointed gables told a tale of years; and whose internal walls and principal floors, both below and above stairs, were formed of "raddle and daub. Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850
Walls were daubed with satanic graffiti. Times, Sunday Times
They saw Viro, daubed with the mud of the Trail of the Wending Willow, seated nobly, upon the battle-wearied steed; and the dangling head of Eshtu from the saddle.
A can of paint had been daubed over his car. The Sun
Participants were daubed with red paint to appear victims of terrible injuries. The Sun
Bechstein's, Daubenton's and barbastelles are the rarest of British bats and all occur here.
He daubed his vice with show of virtue.
The make-up woman daubed mock blood on Jeremy.
Corot, it is true, had never been afflicted with the preoccupation of combining the freshness of nature with the _patine_ with which ages had embrowned the old gallery pictures; but Daubigny, looking at nature with a more literal eye than McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896
I actually inked the flowers in Soft Suede ink and then used my sponge dauber to added the Champagne mist to the flower in a couple of spots before I stamped the image. I'm feeling old...
Walls were daubed with satanic graffiti. Times, Sunday Times
Participants were daubed with red paint to appear victims of terrible injuries. The Sun
The last daubs of face paint carefully removes any remaining pearly traces…
One night, after a wedding, the villagers return to their homes to find their front doors daubed with red, the creatures' colour.
According to one resident who contacted the Weekender, daub is also being dumped on the site, although it was not immediately visible and so could not be confirmed.
Last year, the theme was being daubed with blue paint. Times, Sunday Times
Although the government probably thinks it can afford to lose a few scribblers and daubers this kind of self-imposed exile strikes at a nation's soul.

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