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
By contrast, Domon Ken’s “Mr. and Mrs. Kotani: Survivors of the Atomic Bomb” from 1957 depicts parents and a chubby baby, smiling widely despite the scars that dapple Mr. Kotani’s face.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2019
Horse-drawn carriages click-clack around the lush public squares that dapple the map.
From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2018
Pantherlike in a dapple of tree shadow, Dodo Conway's black station wagon lay in wait.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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