How to Use dapple in a Sentence

dapple

verb

• In the shot, the model sits behind the wheel of a car dappled with rain.
  — Pete Forester, Esquire, 12 June 2017
• The dark green aluminum picks up the light, dappling along the black lacquered wood.
  — Colleen Barry, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
• Slow down, take deep breaths and enjoy how the trees dapple the sunlight.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2021
• And dove-friendly, too: there's a mama dove nesting in the tree that dapples the deck with shade.
  — Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
• Just look at the shed, where dappled sunlight washes over rows of horseshoes tacked on the front.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 22 June 2017
• The wrappers are tender at the ends, but golden and crispy at the center and dappled with pockmarks from the sauté oil.
  — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 15 Aug. 2017
• And yet there are, dappled among the many celebrities who refuse to log off, a small number who shine like a beacon in the darkness.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 15 Dec. 2018
• In the White Mountains, as April yields to May, grasses should be a moist green, dappled with wildflower blooms.
  — Dennis Wagner, azcentral, 5 May 2018
• Yet there's a profound sense of order and repose, as if one had come upon a light-dappled glade.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2017
• To his left are floor-to-ceiling windows, dappled with the shadows of palm trees that sway in the trade winds that carry over South Beach and Biscayne Bay.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• The rocky point offered a spectacular view of the rugged mountainside, a few shadows dappling the jagged desertscape from the clouds above.
  — Brady MacDonald, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
• At first this seems like something of a waste: there are no swallows skimming, no leaves shimmying to dapple the light.
  — Rachel Riederer, Outside Online, 25 June 2019
• Nine dental suites, a pharmacy and a state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen branch off the sun-dappled atrium.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2020
• One customer checks out her future resting place and looks at the light dappled through the trees onto the hardscrabble patch.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• Today, lupines are still some of the most prolific flowers dappling the gray surface.
  — Christy Karras, The Seattle Times, 26 July 2017
• Is your garden shaded for part of the day or is the shade dappled—allowing some sunlight to filter through all day?
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2023
• These understory trees will fry in full sun, so grow them in morning sun or all-day dappled light.
  — Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2018
• Since the yard ranges from full-sun to dappled shade, Hudson and Carter divided the space into micro-gardens.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Without time to hydrate and form a thick paste, the batter dapples the surface of each piece with crispy pebbles rather than a homogenous shell.
  — Ali Bouzari, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 May 2018
• On a recent Tuesday evening, Jerry Starner, 61, pointed at the green rows of corn stalks to the north of his farmstead, dappled with pink rays from the setting sun.
  — Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2023
• The foliage was beginning to turn, dappling the hillsides with splashes of orange, yellow and red that looked like tie-dye.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
• Many of these were designed by Jerde, who reliably dappled color and wit onto drab streetscapes from coast to coast.
  — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 5 June 2019
• Liters of fake blood dappling walls escalated to vats of viscera, with some sperm for good measure.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
• And finally, chestnut woods, their green depths dappled with sun.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2023
• The cracked, rugged exterior will be crisp and dappled with pockets that are just starting to turn golden brown.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Then there are the books of summer—the ones whose covers feature a baseball diamond or Adirondack chairs on a sun-dappled dock.
  — Will Schwalbe, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
• The salt air, sunshine and cool afternoon breezes tend to dapple racehorses’ coats.
  — Diane Bell, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 July 2017
• The Plains were rolling and wide and still dappled with big patches of snow that shot by off the sides of the freeway and there was just enough light left that what snow there was appeared luminescent and strange.
  — Sterling Holywhitemountain, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• As the frigid Alaskan waters lapped at his heels, Patrick Druckenmiller repositioned his saw against the algae-dappled rock.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2020
• Positioned just above the owner’s suite in the main deck below, the glass bottom filters dappled light into the master bedroom.
  — Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024