encrustation

Example Sentences

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On most of these canvases it’s like a thick encrustation of gunk.

From Washington Post

“Fall River Boiler,” a black-and-white image that he photographed in 1978 and printed a decade or so later, is a nocturne of texture and tone: feathery asbestos, gloppy encrustations, circular black holes.

From New York Times

They said the investigation revealed that 101 of the items, all covered in dirt and encrustations, were visible and identifiable in photographs found in the possession of known traffickers.

From New York Times

This encrustation can speed up corrosion and obscure a ship’s appearance over time, making it harder to analyze the degradation of the shipwreck.

From Scientific American

First, she seems to have decided, you wash away the encrustations of cliche and idealization that, over centuries of male image-making, have obscured or distorted women’s felt reality, their experiences of their own bodies.

From Washington Post