encrusted
Example Sentences
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The Seahawks ring, large as a child’s fist, is encrusted with 20 carats of white diamonds and blue sapphires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
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
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
At one point, two young men came and sat down on a stone, their feet encrusted in mud.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2025
These golden surfaces were encrusted with countless jewels—blue, purple, and red—which, in the flickering candlelight, seemed to pulse with a life their own.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
