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Usage examples of dab.

While I was examining this, I began to sense the presence once more, and this time as it grew I became aware of a smell, a sweet perfume akin to Atar of Roses - a scented water my own Mina would often dab at her swan-pale neck.

Julia relaxed slowly as Azar dabbed the perspiration from her forehead and murmured to her, touching her face tenderly.

Ever since the first dab of living substance was brewed up in the amino-acid-tainted soups of azoic oceans on our primordial Earth, and the first simple prototypes of the double-helix DNA molecules of heredity appeared, biological forms have been becoming more complex--learning, acquiring more know-how.

The barbie unscrewed the top of it and used her middle finger to smear dabs of brown onto her breasts, making stylized nipples.

She was lying on the couch dabbing calamine lotion on her legs and reading college catalogs.

But her son had been a man for a long time now, and those days of dabbing mosquito bites with calamine lotion and healing hurts with kisses were gone forever.

She handed him a sandwich, but then she dabbed a little mustard on one nipple and coyly asked if he wanted to taste it.

The dab of cyanoacrylate glue that spat from her tail stuck to the chassis of the van and hardened instantaneously.

A fit of wet, violent coughing derailed his explanation, and he dabbed at his sweaty brow with a well-worn handkerchief.

While Bulen gave his boots a much-needed blacking, Lan washed himself from head to toe at the washstand rather than waiting for a bathtub to be brought, and dabbed an ointment that Anya sent Esne for onto his welts, but he let the women dress him.

And smack dab in the middle of it was the wildest fae on any human continent, and by far the most dangerous.

The catch included also ling, sole, whiting, dab, gurnet, oysters, crabs, whelks, cat-fish, star-fish, and a large amount of ocean scrapings.

The sky was bright, dabs of white cloud pushed and buffeted across the blue expanse by a gusty, chill wind.

When he finished, Avallach dropped the tumbler back onto the tray, and Lile dabbed his chin with the cloth as one would a forgetful child.

The waiter offered us a tray with dabs of Liptauer cheese on small shapes of toast.