0 to cover something with spots of colour that are lighter or darker than the main colour, or to cover something with areas of light and darkness -- （使）有斑点；（使）成斑驳
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.
There is really an extraordinary range of different barks. I think my favourite has to be the dapples of spotted gum bark (Eucalyptus maculata).
They can also have eyes of two different colors; however, this is only found in dapple and double dapple dachshunds.
