daub
verb (used with object)
to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud.
had been daubing
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past perfect progressiveof daub.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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It was a time when every imagination was besmeared with the crude colours with which Lamartine had been daubing his Girondins.
From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de
And there they came to a halt, all three, before a rock that someone had been daubing with whitewash.
From News from the Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
