dapple

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

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

“Chemistry mostly, and I dapple in the Archives with Puppet sometimes.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

The subtlest animation looks the best, especially when sunlight dapples upon fur or felines flex their claws to assert power.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024

I like the little dapples of light, too.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

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

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

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

If a political debate is your idea of a good time — rather than, say, sitting on the sugary sands of some beach watching a dappled sunset play on the water, more power to you!

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024

Sunlight dappled the graves under a towering magnolia tree during the flag-planting ceremony on Feb. 14.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

Outside, past the open double doors, a hob waits, holding the silver bridles of five dappled faerie steeds, their manes braided in complicated and probably magical knots.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

As the late afternoon sunshine casts down through the trees, dappling the Cotswold stone, Sir John Graham comes out to greet me.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2015

The fourth section was bright and dry, sunlight dappling the leaves.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi