dapple
Example Sentences
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The evening is lightly dappled with personal or informative patter.
The Dalmatian fern, with its dappled fronds and alert bearing.
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A splattering of white on one corner of each building mimicked the dappling of sun on the water.
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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.
Picnic in our backpacks, my husband and I hiked in from the Palomarin Headlands — about 2.5 miles — along cliffs where you can spot gray and humpback whales, and shaded paths where dappled shadows dance.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.