

Sunlight dappled the canopy of vines over our heads. “Here there are no mossy rocks or sheltering trees to dapple the scene with their brightness and shadow” ( Various). “Pink natural light dapples a river in one composition, while reflections of house lamps streak a dark lake in another” ( Jenkins). The cat was at the kitchen door, alert, a shaft of sunlight dappling the stripes of his back. “Tiffany also exploited the abstract, mottled effects of molten glass to evoke the textures of foliage and a sky softly dappled with clouds” ( Litt). The floor was dappled with pale moonlight. “Piglet is a Chihuahua-dachshund mix, with a genetic condition called double dapple that causes eyesight and hearing difficulties” ( Dunne). “Gleaming spots caused by methane ice clouds in the planet’s atmosphere dapple its lower half” ( Moskowitz). The clouds threw dapples of shadow over the eerily quiet street. “In press dispatches and news analysis pieces, the stately old Southern order is evoked with scenes of dappled sunlight under Spanish moss–draped oak trees” ( Bowers). “The dapple grays were fat, well-fed beasts, and the coachman was old and rheumatic” ( Morrison). Mom, Mary Brown got a dapple pony for her birthday! The kids dabbled their hands and feet in the pool.

“The moon hung over the harbor dabbling the waves with gold” ( Holmes). They dabbled their feet in the rock pools. “I guess I’m probably alone at dabbling this Afternoon but I’d imagine a good few folk will be joining me as they kick back for the weekend. “The restaurant business entails more than … dabbling in interior design.” – Andy Birsh To mark or become marked with spots of a different shade or color from the background
Words from dabbled professional#
started as my way of dealing with a professional frustration with properly spelled words that were out of context in manuscripts I was editing as well as books I was reviewing. It’s not an adjective.ĭapple, on the other hand, is an adjective, a noun, and both an intransitive and a transitive verb meaning “marked with spots”.īoth phrases, “ripped to shreds” followed by “dabbled with blood”, are attributive adjective phrases, i.e., dappled with blood would mean it was spotted with blood. Ya see, dabble is a verb meaning to casually undertake an activity. no, no, I can’t make heads nor tails of this. When I read “ripped to shreds and dabbled with blood”. de 10).It’s another word confusion that’s confusing me, this dabble vs dapple. dab 2 letter Words made out of dabbledġ). lade 3 letter Words made out of dabbledġ). laded 4 letter Words made out of dabbledġ).
