dapple
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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
In a majority-white area of Silver Lake — where median household income is more than $98,000 a year and mature trees dapple the hilly streets with shade — the surface temperature was 96.4 degrees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
Horse-drawn carriages click-clack around the lush public squares that dapple the map.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2018
She found Strong Belwas eating grapes, as Barristan Selmy watched a stableboy cinch the girth on his dapple grey.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
More open compositions such as “Inlet” neatly mirror sky and water, but Dellario seems most at home under tree cover, where light dapples rather than glares.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
Her voice shines like dapples of pale moonlight, and is especially arresting in moments of ambling melancholy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
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
I lay on my back and stared at a bright blue painted sky, dappled with puffy clouds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
They would remain there, amid the dunes and dappled sunlight of Cape Cod’s hooked terminus, until Cook’s death in 2004.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Yet the result was a unique, multi-faceted sculptural adornment to Central Park that still shimmers compellingly in the dappled light of springtime, while convincingly elevating architecture to the status of fine art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
In a woodland glade, in dappled sunshine, Sharron and Glen Markey are arm-in-arm beside the tree they planted in memory of their beloved 17-year-old daughter, Helena, their only child.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
The canals, gleaming in the sun, dappled the ancient brickwork with gold.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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
The weather, whether misty or stormy, dappling sunshine or “moonlight falling through the window like an invitation,” is consistently impressive.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
She catches sight of me and smiles, sunlight dappling her skin.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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