encrusted

[ UK /ɛnkɹˈʌstɪd/ ]
[ US /ɛnˈkɹəstɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having a hardened crust as a covering
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How To Use encrusted In A Sentence

  • Almost every conversation begins with a reminder that the speakers have "renk breath" and "dirt-encrusted nostrils". The Long Song: Amazon.co.uk: Andrea Levy: Books
  • False-firecracker Thrower @ 11: 49: Better than your boy, bushie, who kissed the terrorist-Saudis on the mouth, while holding their oil-encrusted hands. White House: Obama monitoring terror situation closely
  • In a caravan of unmarked coaches they went to La Fillon’s hôtel particulier, which was done up in the modern taste—rococo, mirrors, pastel colors, much white and gold, with rounded commodes by Charles Cressent, encrusted with gilt bronze. THE DIAMOND
  • Eaten on their own as a candy or as an accompaniment to cheese, these little sugar encrusted fruit treats with a name that has no good translation, come in every imaginable flavor from raspberry to mirabelle plum to date. Flora Lazar: Finally -- Locavore Candy at the Farmers Market
  • The punctured part on a boy's arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
  • Another is a close-up of a mud-encrusted hand reaching back toward a worker at the top of a precarious twig ladder.
  • From shell-encrusted jewellery and belts through sequinned flip-flops and swimsuits to wetsuits and boards, it's all here.
  • Beautiful silver earrings hang from the points of her ears, encrusted by black diamonds and deep purple amethysts.
  • Some are encrusted with costume jewelry, evoking the roughly bejeweled icons of Byzantium.
  • Some of the valuable horse aigrettes, which are encrusted and plumed, are also kept in the treasury.
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