Exempel på dapple

• For centuries, scientists have measured the sun's activity by counting how many sunspots dapple its surface.

• Britten's opera "A Midsummer Night's Dream" opens with shimmering curtains of blue-green fabric and swirling pools of light dappling the stage.

• The cat was at the kitchen door, alert, a shaft of sunlight dappling the stripes of his back.

• As he walks deeper into the woods, branches of oak, hickory and sugar maple trees dapple the sunlight.

• The illustrations by Jane Ray are all exquisitely patterned with circles, stars, dapples, dots and curlicues and are delicately and ravishingly coloured.

• The little horse had dapples in his coat.

• There is really an extraordinary range of different barks. I think my favourite has to be the dapples of spotted gum bark (Eucalyptus maculata).

• I find it extremely difficult to believe that any member of a crowd could recognise next day one dapple-grey horse out of seven.

• Three of the seven officers riding dapple-grey horses saw the woman being treated by foot police, but they were unaware of any reason for withdrawing.

• In the morning you see the bluebell wood, a mass of beautiful blue, under the dapple green of the beech trees.

• Both have dappled grey bodies, black hands and feet and white cheeks, although the cheek hairs of the red-shanked douc are much longer.

• The boy's death is presumed accidental, except for one unexplained detail: his face was dappled with strange crescent shaped marks.

• Horses that express the silver dapple gene (and do not have the gray gene) are born that color and it will not lighten.

• The specks a light sensitive, dapple-skinned, forest-dwelling folk are said to retain vestiges of magic in a world which is becoming progressive and technologised.

• In some double dapples, there are varying degrees of vision and hearing loss, including reduced or absent eyes.

• Dapples on a bay horse suggest good condition and care, though many well-cared for horses never dapple.

• The silver dapple gene in horses does not affect the eyes, skin, or red pigment.

• If a dachshund has one single spot of dapple, it is a dapple.

• In keeping with this sense of history and tradition, the brewery keeps a small team of dapple-grey shire horses.

• This coloration is the result of the relatively rare silver dapple gene acting on a black base coat.

• The grey plumage of the underparts or the mantle is marked by pale dappling or scalloping.

• Immature birds are brown with white dappling and have greenish facial skin.