The frosted appearance of ground glass is given to the panes of windows by gently dabbing the glass over with a piece of glazier's putty, stuck on the ends of the fingers.
The preceding compositions are applied to the surface of the plates, previously made sufficiently warm to melt them easily, their even diffusion being promoted by dabbing them with a wad of cotton.
A boy near Judd picked up a pail and went racing out on the field, dabbing a sponge in it as he ran.
Then, dabbing his face sadly with a handkerchief for effect, Cateye smothered many almost unsuppressible giggles.
He turned and walked away, dabbing his handkerchief tenderly to the bruise and sympathizing with himself.
She ate slowly, her little finger at right angle to her movements, masticating with closed lips, her napkin constantly dabbing up at them.
And I meant to be so sweet, I meant to make you enjoy yourself until you thought me quite irresistible," Barbara laughed through her tears, kneeling upright on the sofa and dabbing at her eyes.
You always say that, darling," she protested gently, leaning forward to the mirror and dabbing at herself with a powder-puff.
May be removed by washing the leaf with ether, or benzoline, placing a pad of blotting-paper under and over the leaf, dabbing the benzoline or ether on the spot with a piece of cotton wool.
In another moment hands were dabbing vigorously at his steel casing, and there was a sound, horrible enough in his position, of the metal protection of the clockwork being vigorously hammered.
The dabbing recurred, and the globe swayed and ground against the spindle over which the wire was rolled.
And it's something a woman wants sometimes," she added after a while, dabbing her wet handkerchief against her eyes.
For the rest of the evening he was dabbing his mouth with his pocket-handkerchief.
Miss Sikkum stopped dabbing the front of her Brixton "Paris model.
Flora broke the silence, dabbing at her face with her handkerchief as she spoke.
She kept her clear, rosy skin in spite of the pastry and sweets and the indolent life, and even the layers of powder with which she was forever dabbing her face had not coarsened its texture.
The little party followed the waiter out into the hall, where Ramball was standing, hat in one hand, yellow handkerchief in the other, dabbing his bald head and looking very much excited.
Ah, I wish you could see him, sir," continued Ramball, dabbing his head pleasantly with his yellow handkerchief.
I don't believe you mean that, my dear; but there, lie back in the chair again, and let me go on dabbing all your poor cuts and bruises with this lotion and water.
Got out, sir," continued the proprietor, waving one hand about oratorically, and dabbing his bald head with his hand.
He was dabbing feebly at his forehead with an overperfumed handkerchief.
She may be dabbing away at other people, but you must be just, Jeannie; she hasn't been dabbing at any of us lately.
The lady in white boots, rouge and peroxide was gasping and dabbing her face with a napkin, which was now a study in pink and white.
Bindle turned to the lady, who was hysterically dabbingher chest with a napkin.
She flew to a mirror, and was dabbing her straight little nose with a powder-puff as she talked.
Zizi, and not without reason, for her own tiny wisp of cambric was nothing but a wet ball, which she was futilely dabbing into her big black eyes.
She had found her pocket-handkerchief and was dabbing her eyes and mouth with it, rubbing off the uncleanness of his impact.
They came on with a peculiar rolling, helpless walk, rocked by the intolerable explosions of their mirth, dabbing their mouths and eyes with their pocket-handkerchiefs in a tortured struggle for control.
Rounds now came up, dabbing his scratched and bleeding face with his handkerchief.
He began dabbinghis face with his handkerchief, and looking merrily at Distin.
He could see her now, standing in the street waiting for him, dabbing at her mouth with the foolish handkerchief she always carried in her hand.
What did she want to keep on dabbing at her mouth with her handkerchief for!
She was dabbing her eyes and waving to a big, mustached man who filled a compartment door and who shouted jokes to her.
Yet now he lolled back among his pillows, dabbing complacently at the absurd yellow toy.
That's a great mistake, for you go dabbing about in them all, instead of being occupied with one.
I didn't like to ask them how to manage it, so I began dabbing about with it.
Ignorant, I say, of this crowning mishap, she goes on dabbing her brow gently, while all the others lie around her dabbing likewise.
Perhaps while he is dabbing with lint and lotions the real remedy is the knife.
I don't believe a syllable of it,' protested Lady Kirkbank, dabbing her brow with a handkerchief steeped in eau de Cologne.
Lightly dabbing her eyelids with a pocket powder-puff, she went back to the cottage.
She drew back in horror, her hands dabbing aimlessly from her own face to the sides of the pew.
So much of my time had been taken from me that I was actually dabbing at the picture when the men came to take it away; I dabbing in front and they tapping at the nails behind.
He squirmed and struggled, dabbing at the air with the injured as well as the uninjured forepaw and increasing his pain.
The place stinks like a den of skunks," Mrs. Davis observed, pausing from dabbing the end of her nose with a powder-puff.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dabbing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
