A dab of paint. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
dab the wall with paint. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"I like to keep active, and was chopping wood, general fetching and carrying," said Wood, known as a dab hand at DIY. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Note 53: I translate as "dab" the Shangaan verb kutota, which means to anoint, as with oil. From Wordnik.com. [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference
It takes about five minutes for the mussel to create a "dab" of this glue beneath its foot on a piling or rock. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
But being a "dab" at improvising words, as well as music, he could easily spin out his melodies to any length he pleased. From Wordnik.com. [Burl] Reference
2 Ought to have a 'dab' option- like Miller Harris, and SMN, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Montale Oud Cuir d'Arabie, Red Vetyver and Black Aoud] Reference
With the little dab I would have I could do nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
Broken Feather himself's a dab hand at it, so I hear. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
I am surprised she had the inclination to dab make-up on. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief Meditation on Smoking] Reference
When oil is drawn from a new well, you dab it all over your face. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Gets Serious] Reference
And she wants them to have, as she says in the book, a dab of sweetness. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak Vision Of Homesteading In 'Rachel DuPree'] Reference
The candle has been lighted and stuck with a dab of grease on the ledge. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
Phil watched him in the rear-view mirror and noted the hasty dab at moist eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
A little dab of concealer under the eyes can take years off, so why wouldn't you?. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon Perdis: Who's Grooming Who: Makeup and the Modern Male] Reference
Dear Heloise: To prevent shine, dab antiperspirant on your face (e.g., forehead and chin). From Wordnik.com. [Hints From Heloise] Reference
Mary walks off, a tissue to dab her eyes on one hand, a big glass of red wine in the other. From Wordnik.com. [Mean girls: D.C. "Housewives" recap and fact-check (#5, Sept. 9)] Reference
Mr. Calabash attempted to dab away the liquid from his lap, but it was far too late for him. From Wordnik.com. [Rev. Jasper Pickery and Three Manifestations of the Devil] Reference
You've moved to Seattle and this is your life; if ever a man stood smack-dab in the middle. From Wordnik.com. [Dry Rot] Reference
She'd had a hundred years to collect knick-knacks, nibble food, buy clothes, dab on perfume. From Wordnik.com. [For the Woman Who Has a Hundred] Reference
It was even on record that he once went so far as to dab it with glue with painful consequences. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Rub if bright with a leather, put a small dab of glue in each corner, and place it in the frame. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Sometimes he'd paint his fingernails hot pink and dab glitter or white foundation on his cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Young, Gay and Murdered] Reference
Rub the pimples or blotches for some minutes with a rough towel, and then dab them with the lotion. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Free at last the boy bounded off with a decorative dab of white still on his nose and sandwich in hand. From Wordnik.com. [Free At Last] Reference
First came Ella, neat, old, gray-haired, fearfully thin, wrinkled, with a dab of red rouge on each cheek. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Castaldi looked on from a nearby defense table, sometimes turning his eyes down and appearing to dab tears. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Castaldi Gets 23 Years For $77M Ponzi Scheme] Reference
Holding the piece of spleen in the forceps, dab the cut surface on to a surface plate in a number of different spots. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
It was set off by a pudgy, half-formed dab of a nose that let his breath in and out when his mouth happened to be shut. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
She seemed suddenly to realize that she was crying and took a handkerchief out of her sleeve to dab at her eyes and face. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
The fingernails transform from a natural beige to a vibrant orange in a matter of minutes with the expert dab of a brush. From Wordnik.com. [Phillip Martin: Nail Salons and Human Trafficking] Reference
She kissed me, carried her handkerchief, now reduced to a wet dab, to her eyes, and went out with a certain precipitation. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I'm a dab hand with the crab, chilli and spaghetti; and I live in London, so I can buy proper ravioli at Lina Stores in Soho. From Wordnik.com. [Spaghetti malfunction] Reference
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