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- noun Plural form of
dapple . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dapple .
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Examples
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Sometimes the writer cozies up on the source's sun porch, which provides the opportunity to poetically recount how dapples of golden sunlight played across the movie star's face just as she began to discuss her painful, highly public divorce.
Channing Tatum gets drunk, loses his cellphone and giggles like a girl in awesome GQ profile Jen Chaney 2011
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As a warm October sun dapples the trees with light, they guide two television crews and a newspaper reporter among the oaks, while sending e-mails, giving interviews and arranging news conferences on their phones.
Trying to save a forest, and change Russia Kathy Lally 2010
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Sun dapples a bank from which an adder slips away.
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When my body changed, my dapples faded into the silk white coat of adulthood.
Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010
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When the light-dapples on the floor were long and tinged with sickly orange, a servant came in with bread and cheese and water.
PodCastle » PodCastle 91: Three Days and Nights In Lord Darkdrake’s Hall 2010
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It's equally enchanting at night when subtle spotlighting at the top of a katsura tree dapples the garden with a pattern of tiny heart-shaped leaves.
Homeowners still extending living spaces to the outdoors Stephanie Cavanaugh 2010
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He dapples in the intangible with an ease and playfulness.
Charles Russell: The Wickedest Man in LA Charles Russell 2010
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An external shell composed of nine gracefully torqued wings of translucent stone shields an internal filigree basket which dapples the walls with dancing patterns of light and shadows.
A Temple Of Light 2008
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Up and up and up she grows, her white coat grown out completely like armor, her brown and black dapples the daisho at her sides.
Samurai Kitteh 2010
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When the light-dapples on the floor were long and tinged with sickly orange, a servant came in with bread and cheese and water.
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