Example Sentences

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She was dressed in a yellow jacket that had dappled fur on the edges, and her hair was pulled back tightly with shiny ribbons.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

They were the ones that, like astute builders, had dappled the stones piled up on the bottom, forming bulwarks in whose shelter they had disguised themselves in order to pounce upon their victims.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster