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I’d grown up in suburban New Jersey, where the geography of the planet is hidden beneath a barnacled crust of 20th-century houses, highways, and shopping malls.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
On her strolls through the city, she was accustomed to seeing Dilbar, a behemoth barnacled to the coast of the Mediterranean.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2022
He told me many tales of the islands: of barnacled, hard-drinking fishermen; hulking Nordic farmhands; and violent, evil seas.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2015
There was the voice, of course, wide and deep and barnacled.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2011
At the lowest tides, the barnacled ribs of a thousand shipwrecks stick out above the sea.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
