Sentence examples for to daub from inspiring English sources

Two of Wadjda's schoolmates make so bold as to daub their toenails blue.

"It's so hard to daub all those cards -- you get cross-eyed," said Lili Everard, 67.

By contrast, Myspace allowed you to daub your character, Pollock-style, all over the web.

A man was seen to daub on the Rothko mural on Sunday afternoon before fleeing the gallery.

Furs seemed to daub many things, even belts, but it looked best in deep raspberry with boldly printed evening pants.

A Slav paramilitary group known as the Lions began to daub menacing graffiti on the walls of Skopje.

Reduced to daubed stick figures, holding hands or sitting on the grass, fuzzy in the city light, they might be you or me.

He notes the changing colours in the sky, from blue to daubed russet, the migrating birds "with their tireless little hearts", that for him (and possibly us) constitute augury.

As one frustrated reader put it back in June: "I find it incredible banks have to resort to daubing a promise of payment on a bit of dead tree, to be physically transported by road/rail and then, at the other end, the information will be simply punched back into another computer".

Putin is also partial to daubing oil on canvas: a painting he allegedly 'dashed off' in a day sold at a charity auction in 2009 for more than £750,000.

But Kazan's mural painters, who worked overnight to hurriedly daub Messi's likeness alongside an image of Cristiano Ronaldo that had appeared outside Argentina's hotel, might be asked to get their mops and buckets out now.