dapple
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Every time he touches her, the rest of the world seems to disappear: The focus goes shallow, the fine hairs on Brie’s skin dapple in the light, her muscles creak as loudly as tectonic plates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2025
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
Horse-drawn carriages click-clack around the lush public squares that dapple the map.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2018
He sat a sorrel stallion, his standard-bearer a dapple grey.
From "A Clash of Kings" 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
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 way the sun dapples on the buildings near her Garment District office is something to see, she said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2012
They blossom into blobs and dapples and flecks and fronds of colour, manifestations of the artist's daydreaming delight.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2010
The sun shone down through the rustling of ferns and stunted cypress of the island in dapples of light and shadow.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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
The evening is lightly dappled with personal or informative patter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 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
This was classic couture — in sandstone tulle, sky-like lilac, blush cloud pink and dappled pastels — with arabesque motifs on golden foliage.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
The naked waste, as far as the eye could pierce, even to the distant menace of the mountains, was dappled with the fitful moonlight.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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
"Wouldn't it be useful for English speakers to have a specific word for sunlight dappling through leaves... Or a word for the action of sitting outside enjoying a beer?"
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2025
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
There was nothing back there but the trees and the brush and the sunlight dappling the ground.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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