daub
verb (used with object)
to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud.
was daubing
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past progressiveof daub.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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A whole race, a whole species, died while the first Crò-Magnon cave-artist was daubing pictures of reindeer and bison, and across fifty thousand years and fifty million miles there was no bridge of understanding.
From Omnilingual by Freas, Kelly
With the first wash of light he was up from his couch on the hard floor and was daubing his soul out on scraps, and odds-and-ends, and stolen pieces of rice-paper.
From Moonshine & Clover by Housman, Laurence
Didn't you notice the lurid mixture of colors I was daubing on my block?
From The Spanish Chest by Brown, Edna Adelaide
His first business in Crawford's employ was daubing the cabin, which was built of unhewn logs with the bark on.
From The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher)
I was daubing in a friend's chambers when the angel of opportunity came.
From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by Murray, David Christie
