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encrust
verb as in dirty
verb as in line
Example Sentences
“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.
At its heart was a 12ft tall emblem of the Hindu god Shiva, sheathed in gold encrusted with rubies and pearls.
He dunked a washcloth and wiped the encrusted blood off the face, then wadded tissues inside the mouth and nostrils.
If Los Angeles has a reputation for opera, it is as an outlier, a city freed from encrusted tradition and eager to invent.
The mussels can compromise water delivery systems by encrusting screens and filters, attaching to the walls of large pipelines, and clogging smaller pipes.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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