dapple

How To Use dapple In A Sentence

• Many dictionaries of Neapolitan dialect from the late eighteenth century onward tell us that pizza, at its simplest, was merely a generic word for all kinds of pies, and for what would be called focaccia or schiacciata elsewhere in Italy, that is, a flat piece of dough dappled with fat or oil and cooked quickly in a hot oven. Delizia!
• The woodland floor is dappled with sunlight, which makes it difficult to tell what is a mushroom and what is just a dead leaf.
• Can you see high hills dappled in snow from your apartment or damp basement flat?
• The evening sunlight dappled through the leaves, casting shards of light onto the bridle paths.
• In Kentucky, the plant is often associated with azaleas, mountain laurels and bellworts under the dappled shade of birch trees.
• I grab my bowl, that Mary had added a heap of cilantro, Parmesan and cabbage, and wander over to the table with the window view of the fog-draped, rain dappled, slow-moving Milwaukee River taking its sorry-ass time through the warehouse district on its way to Lake Michigan. March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
• There are other most beautiful horses, particularly a dappled jennet, which is ridden by a figure that has all the body covered with scales after the manner of a fish; which is copied from the Column of Trajan, wherein the figures have armour of that kind; and it is thought that such armour is made from the skins of crocodiles. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo
• She was of a burnt sorrel hue, with a little mixture of dapple-grey spots, but above all she had horrible tail; for it was little more or less than every whit as great as the steeple-pillar of St. Mark beside Langes: and squared as that is, with tuffs and ennicroches or hair-plaits wrought within one another, no otherwise than as the beards are upon the ears of corn. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• -- [MS.M. erased.] [440] [For the use of "dapple" as an intransitive verb, compare The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
• This section of the highway cuts through the island's rough interior, offering travelers views of stark rocky mountains, shady eucalyptus groves around gurgling streams, and the omnipresent tan-and-green-dappled shrublands Italians refer to as Mediterranean macchia. Enjoy the Ride