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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

Rook.—I find no grain:    The cruel frost encrusts the cornland!

From Poems of the Past and the Present by Thomas Hardy

Let it not be supposed that Thompson has anything in common with the typical, ideal hog-him who encrusts his hide with clay, and inhumes his muzzle in garbage.

From The Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Bierce

The US president has received a luxury jumbo jet, an engraved gold bar, a diamond-and-jewel encrusted gold ring, and more.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Boyce told the court Abbott usually wore a Cartier bracelet and gold diamond encrusted Rolex watch of "real sentimental value".

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

As a college senior, Bias bought an ankle-length fur coat, a Nissan 380ZX sports car and a gold bracelet encrusted with diamonds spelling his first name, the Washington Post reported.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

Some versions were encrusted with jewels in paisley patterns, taking on an antique feel, others were clear and hot pink.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025

In three hours Marie-Laure’s numb fingers discover a stranded jellyfish, an encrusted buoy, and a thousand polished stones.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

“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

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

The sun was brutal, reflecting off the thick layer of salt encrusting the barren earth around Lac Assal, a lake 10 times saltier than the ocean.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2020

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