caked

Example Sentences

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Footage of the five men shot on Wednesday showed them miserable and caked in mud, telling rescuers they were suffering chest pains and starving hungry.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

A frame outside the auditorium door displays five photos of the Mayer’s dilapidated conditions in the ’90s, with the theater caked in rust and mold, a shell of the version I’m standing in now.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

A fisherman dived down in the water and brought up a clump of vegetation caked in dark slime.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2025

“I can’t believe we made it,” said one wide-eyed woman in a large pickup with mud caked halfway up its windshield.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024

They were caked with black dirt, his nails cracked and broken from scraping at the frozen earth.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor