encrusted

Example Sentences

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Police also found on the ground nearby the damaged crown of Empress Eugénie, encrusted with 1,354 diamonds and 56 emeralds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

At one point, two young men came and sat down on a stone, their feet encrusted in mud.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 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

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

I sidled over to a shelf along the wall and picked up what looked like a solid gold staff with rubies encrusted on the handle.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon