dappled
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
I lean down and stroke Boomer’s head, black dappled with spots of ivory.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
Vocabulary lists containing dappled
The Kite Runner
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"The Song of Wandering Aengus" by W.B. Yeats
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"The Song of Wandering Aengus" and "Sonnet 43," Vocabulary from the poems
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