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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

The dry-looking, green, grey, red or yellow vegetable structures which encrust our rocks, walls, and trees, and which are called Lichens, form a group of plants curiously intermediate between Fungi and Algæ.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 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

Another fine monument, by the architect Sanmicheli, to two brothers who rejoiced in the surname of Verità encrusts the front of the church of Sta.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various

The weather in the wintertime is generally bright and clear; sometimes there are fogs, and hoar frost, which encrusts the trees with the most beautiful crystals: parhelia and aurora borealis are frequently seen.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian

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

In Traynor’s vision, lighters, can openers and outlet covers are reimagined as exquisite pieces of Brutalist art, crisscrossed with strips of tin, encrusted with sea glass and stones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 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

They show the prow of a wooden ship, encrusted with marine life, a few bronze cannons scattered across the sand, and blue-and-white porcelain and gold coins shining on the ocean floor.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024

The floor was littered with skeletons in Roman armor and Imperial gold weapons encrusted with frost.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

“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