Example Sentences

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Too often in Stars a wave of honest feeling brings a backwash of sentimentality; too often the show feels that the more it dots its i's, the more the audience will dab at theirs.

From Time Magazine Archive

A dog who has never seen this prickly ball will dab at it, and have a sore paw to nurse for weeks after.

From Stories of California by Sexton, Ella M.