crest

A dress made of glass bubbles, foam on a crest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

It’s big, too, nearly 10 miles long, and peaky, with some squat concrete buildings up at the crest of one of the hills, and a single telegraph pole.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

It was chosen because this animal’s femur lacks a crest or raised bony protrusion – known as a trochanter – where part of the tail musculature would attach.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

The most famous corner is Eau Rouge, a high-speed left-right flick into and out of a compression that launches the cars uphill into a left over a crest - technically known as Raidillon.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

A mile away, on the crest of the next hill, a storm had gathered over some old stone ruins—maybe the remains of a Roman temple or a fortress.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Regions corresponding to the crests contain more electrons, while the troughs contain fewer.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

They unearthed a skull, fragments of the hind legs and several crests.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

Very different are the bold designs for wrought-iron ornament, drawn full size, for making grilles, chandeliers and decorative crests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

He’d drive up through Malibu Canyon to Mulholland Drive and then west to Decker Canyon, where he would time the turns and crests to the crescendos of the classical composition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

Now he turned his head toward the mountains of the east, the Gabilans, and they were jolly mountains, with hill ranches in their creases, and with pine trees growing on the crests.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

Animals expected to benefit include native British species such as brown hares, hedgehogs, great crested newts, common toads and the Small Heath butterfly, a spokesperson for the company said.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

It is now spreading across Australia, most recently killing more than 1,000 crested terns and a long-nosed fur seal, the first detection in a mainland mammal.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

Early Saturday, the river crested at nearly 25 feet in central Indiana—surpassing a record set in 1913, according to the National Water Prediction Service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Eventually the rate of inflation crested at a record 13.5% in 1980, capping off nearly a decade of runaway prices.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 24, 2026

As dawn crested, he entered the challenger’s territory, and still he ran.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

In January, worries were cresting that AI was going to quickly disrupt big software companies like Salesforce and ServiceNow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

A subtle wave of shame rises — small but persistent — cresting as you imagine your child saying, or your partner thinking, “We’re having this again?”

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026

New data-center designs are cresting one gigawatt in power consumption, the entire capacity of a nuclear reactor.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

Pelicans glided over the cresting waves, while a harbor seal watched the surfers for a bit before diving under the surface and disappearing from sight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025

It’s weird, Noise, but almost wordless, cresting the hill in front of us and rolling down, single-minded but talking in legions, like a thousand voices singing the same thing.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness