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McCrady’s, Langhorne recalls, might prepare a local fish but encrust it with lichens that he foraged.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2023

Guests complain about their servants, encrust their manicures and teeth with diamonds and feed each other gold-flaked chocolate truffles.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2022

The nodules form on deep abyssal plains where sedimentation rates are low, allowing metal compounds dissolved in seawater to encrust a nucleus, like a shark tooth or a rock, over millions of years.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 14, 2019

With time, corals, sponges and other marine life encrust the concrete, and it becomes indistinguishable from the natural reefs.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2016

Chatterton took great pains to encrust his gold with verd-antique; it requires little to remove the green rubbish from the coin.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 by Various

A black sponge that encrusts tidal pool rocks in southern Japan, Halichondria okadai, produced a drug, now marketed as Halaven, to treat late-stage breast cancer.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 27, 2022

Moss encrusts the walls, rainwater drips down rusted steel beams, flimsy lights glow yellow in dark interiors.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2014

Unlike the atmospheric junk, which simply encrusts the surface, mercury seeps into microscopic flaws in the cylinders’ surfaces created by the polishing process.

From Economist ● Jan. 10, 2013

A rich distilled perfume emanates from it like the breath of genius; a golden cloud envelopes it; a honeyed paste of poetic diction encrusts it, like the candied coat of the auricula.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Alfred Rayney Waller

Then, selecting the grains one by one, it encrusts them all around itself in the fabric of the bag and cements them with the fluid from its spinnerets, which hardens at once.

From More Hunting Wasps by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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

At one point, two young men came and sat down on a stone, their feet encrusted in mud.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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

He stood and scanned the island—bleach-white dunes, blankets of grass, and boulders encrusted with salt like frosting.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

“The You You Are” is self-help hackery rife with fool’s gold like, “A society with festering workers cannot flourish, just as a man with rotting toes cannot skip” encrusting bumper sticker calls for rebellion.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2025

Agricultural irrigation and power plant operations could also be significantly impeded, and if past mussel infestations are any indication, golden mussels could also severely affect boating and recreation by encrusting docks, engines and steering equipment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2024

During the trial, it was heard security guard Hettiarachchi had spotted Mr Odunlami wearing a fake Patek Philippe Nautilus watch with diamond encrusting which, if real, would be worth about £125,000.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2024

It sure didn’t look like there were diamonds encrusting her shoes.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2022

After this escape, I was content to take a foggy view of the Inn through the window’s encrusting dirt, and to stand dolefully looking out, saying to myself that London was decidedly overrated.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens