encrusted
Example Sentences
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Burns says that was all part of figuring out “how to loosen the barnacles of sentimentality that have encrusted themselves” on the war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
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
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
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
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
