encrusted
Example Sentences
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Burns says that was all part of figuring out “how to loosen the barnacles of sentimentality that have encrusted themselves” on the war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
The wind reached 100 miles an hour, the waves rose to 50 feet, and the ice that encrusted the deck must have weighed tons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
If Los Angeles has a reputation for opera, it is as an outlier, a city freed from encrusted tradition and eager to invent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
One by one, the satellites – each of them encrusted with a hodge-podge of solar panels and other gizmos – detached from their mothership.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2024
It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars; the thermometer on the porch of Commons had sunk to zero.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
