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3 total sentences available.
And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink, his sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.
Source: tatoeba (7963753)
Mary daubed antibiotic ointment on Tom's arm.
Source: tatoeba (10155949)
Inside polling stations, voters marked their paper ballots behind closed curtains, before dropping them into an opaque plastic box. Civil servants overseeing the election then daubed voters' thumbs with indelible ink to prevent anyone from voting twice.
Source: tatoeba (12166823)
Closest matches include coarse, coat, coated, covered, crude.
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