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Meanings of dab in English
Synonyms
Examples for "dabbing"
Examples for "dabbing"
1
Let me help you clean up. She began dabbing at his lap.
2
She never did like it, dabbing it timidly over her beautiful face.
3
Many of Mr Taiaroa's family were dabbing their eyes and appeared relieved.
4
On his right, Susannah was dabbing a cut under Eddie's left eye.
5
She walked about the room, dabbing her wet cheeks with a towel.
1
I aim point blank at the dab of red sealing wax upon the wall, which is four inches above the magnet.
2
It is only the dab and the common plaice that are content to lie ever on the bottom, and they are but one-sided fish.
3
Daisy laughed at the idea, and scattered the dabs with a liberal hand.
4
At all events she fully agreed with him on the Dab Kinzer question.
5
Item 3 showed some misfit but only in the DABS sample.
Usage of dab in English
1
The new king flicked a dab of green foam off the throne.
2
He went outside to Potato Park to show people how to dab.
3
Paul Pogba the leader deserves to dab and dance all he wants
4
A hasty dab or two of the library paste completed his work.
5
Perhaps secrete a microfibre cloth in one, to dab away layer-induced perspiration.
6
Landed a half-destroyed leviathan smack dab in the middle of the invasion.
7
A dab of mortar more or less is not a serious business.
8
He'd hoped Finn would dab the wound, then dispose of the tissue.
9
Mrs. Hastings wiped a dab of steak juice off Mr. Pennythistle's cheek.
10
You don't know what a dab I am at rondeaux and barcarolles.
11
Yes, I occasionally use them to dab at my nose or eyes.
12
Somehow a dab of the whipped cream ended up on my nose.
13
But smack dab in the middle was the blackest sort of black.
14
A little dab of water, a dirty gray bag, a little clean-up.
15
I dab myself with a filched white handkerchief, which comes away bloody.
16
A dab of lipstick cost a Navan woman £100 at Dunshaughlin Court yesterday.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Dab through the time
Dab across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common