(adjective) marked with small spots or patches contrasting with the background
It was November of 1967, and my exhilaration was as bright and intense as the colors that dappled the room.
dappled in leafy light
the morning sun glints through the blinds, throwing dappled orange light across her skin
suddenly everything was cast in dappled yellow light
little dappled points of light
The hood of my Hyundai is dappled with the morning dew.
We begin the obituary in laughter and end it in tears, in a sublime dapple of emotions
god
fabulous forests where there were more birds than tigers and more fruit than thorns, and where, in some dappled depth, man’s mind had been born
In the distance, fleeting cloud shadows dappled the dull green of slopes above timber line, and the gray and white of Longs Peak
we were able to stop side by side at a red light under one of several sets of elevated tracks whose dappled shadows obscured what took place below.
leave them in a dapple of ambiguity rather than drag them out into any prematurely decisive light of judgment
beautiful
I was hiking to the top of sun-dappled, bouldery cliffs