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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

But in sober unpoetical truth the sea-salt never gets much further than the seaman’s skin, which in certain latitudes it takes the opportunity to encrust very thoroughly. 

From Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad

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.—Throughout the field 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

Police also found on the ground nearby the damaged crown of Empress Eugénie, encrusted with 1,354 diamonds and 56 emeralds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

In the third picture in the carousel, Swift, wearing a Ralph Lauren halter neck dress and diamond encrusted Cartier watch, flashes her engagement ring - a cushion cut diamond on a gold band.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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 also made him a present of eight of his swiftest horses, each horse decked with a golden bridle and a saddle encrusted with precious stones.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

“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