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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

A semicircular bar draws eyes to the center of the wood-paved interior, whose large windows dapple the tables with sunlight.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 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

Pantherlike in a dapple of tree shadow, Dodo Conway's black station wagon lay in wait.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

Her voice shines like dapples of pale moonlight, and is especially arresting in moments of ambling melancholy.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021

The female is so dark I thought she was the male until early morning light picked out the faintest dapples on her breast.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2020

The way the sun dapples on the buildings near her Garment District office is something to see, she said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2012

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

The evening is lightly dappled with personal or informative patter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

Filming in woods near Nara, and then in the Komyoji forest in Kyoto prefecture, Miyagawa created a latticework of sunlight with tree branches and leaves forming a living carpet of dappled shadows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

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

Many have outstanding foliage, including the dappled willow Hakuro Nishiki, which has white-splashed foliage with hints of pink.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

Towers of dappled foxglove bells blossomed wherever she walked.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

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

As you sit in meditation on a wooden bench, the sunlight dappling across your face, life’s chaos exists just a hundred steps away on the other side of the temple walls.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

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

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2024

Sports run through Pittsburgh the way its rivers do, dappling the city’s culture with hints of black and gold.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

Ahead of them Ash could see the lymer and his dogs running forward at an easy pace, their spotted coats of black and brown on white like sunlight dappling the ground through the foliage.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo