Example Sentences

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When the house lights rose at the end, a woman near me was dabbing tears.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013

The other day, Carolyn Fuchs, an exhibit specialist who studied fine arts at Connecticut College, was dabbing green and white paint — the lichen — on the trunk of an artificial buttress tree.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2013

Then, describing how the Chirkinian persona came alive and gave a hard time to the makeup artist who was dabbing his forehead, Haas did an impression of the stentorian Chirkinian delivery.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2011

At 16, she was dabbing herself with Schiaparelli's "Shocking," and insisting on her right to wear lipstick.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was dabbing his mouth with the corner of his handkerchief when Art Moran came through the door.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson