encrusted

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The wind reached 100 miles an hour, the waves rose to 50 feet, and the ice that encrusted the deck must have weighed tons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 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

Chappell also joined the fun, wearing a one-piece bodysuit encrusted with pearls and seashells.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2024

Trays laden with dirty dishes, leftovers, encrusted silverware and much worse slowly inched their way toward me on a conveyor belt.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2024

One man alone could have carried El Patron, but the coffin was so encrusted with gold that six could barely lift it.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer