dapple

Every time he touches her, the rest of the world seems to disappear: The focus goes shallow, the fine hairs on Brie’s skin dapple in the light, her muscles creak as loudly as tectonic plates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2025

So when the rain comes, it doesn't just dapple us with light sprinkles, it drops the heavier load of moisture that has been accumulating for a longer time.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2023

Gleaming spots caused by methane ice clouds in the planet's atmosphere dapple its lower half.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 20, 2022

Also quiet, if more dramatic, is “March Morning,” in which daybreak begins to dapple beads of light on a still-dark ocean.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2022

“Chemistry mostly, and I dapple in the Archives with Puppet sometimes.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Does your manic pixie dream girl complex fantasize about an ethereal-looking stranger mesmerized in reverie as they gaze upon the dapples of fluorescent Tom Bradley terminal lights reflecting off this sumptuously swamp-hued fabric?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

I like the little dapples of light, too.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

It sets apart the mansion, reveals its layered additions, dapples the Frick in shade.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2014

They blossom into blobs and dapples and flecks and fronds of colour, manifestations of the artist's daydreaming delight.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2010

As she reaches for it, she watches the way the light slips through the heavy pine needles, dapples everything with sweet September light .

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson

Trees along the street offered dappled shade, and there were several other cute restaurants nearby, many with outdoor spaces of their own.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

Over the past two years, Johnson has become a minority owner of multiple horses, including Sandman, a $1.2 million, dappled gray thoroughbred who competed in last year’s Derby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

The special habitat's twisted branches, dappled light and moss-covered understorey once covered much of the country, but is now only found in isolated areas including the Woodland Trust's Coed Felenrhyd near Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd.

From BBC ● May 18, 2025

Sunlight dappled the graves under a towering magnolia tree during the flag-planting ceremony on Feb. 14.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

He thought he recognized the horse, a big dappled gray—had he noticed it in a Milagro field last night?

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

When you assemble the dessert into bowls and start dappling each island with caramel and toasted sliced almonds, your friends will begin to hover.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

I stepped through the door, surveying the late-summer light dappling the antique wood floors.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2024

Holding up a colander can also project the partial eclipse onto the ground, as can looking at sunlight dappling through a tree’s leaves, or through your fingers aligned perpendicularly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

As the late afternoon sunshine casts down through the trees, dappling the Cotswold stone, Sir John Graham comes out to greet me.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2015

There was a big enough hole in the roof for the winter sky to shine though, showing a dappling of snow on the wooden floor.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu