caked
Example Sentences
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A frame outside the auditorium door displays five photos of the Mayer’s dilapidated conditions in the ’90s, with the theater caked in rust and mold, a shell of the version I’m standing in now.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025
When discovered by a police officer with a metal detector on a cold November morning last year, the iPad was found caked in mud having been underwater for more than five years.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025
Hillsides were caked and brown, city streets were dotted with dead lawns, and wildfires raged throughout the state and region, feeding on bone-dry grass and shrubs.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2024
Cobblestone streets and mom-and-pop stores speckle the downtown of this city of 18,000 that is caked in red clay soil and nestled among rolling hills.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024
On his way home, he made sure his boots and hands were caked with a day’s worth of cemetery dirt.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
