Example Sentences

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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

By the end of the twenty-first century, Miami became something else entirely: a popular diving spot where people could swim among sharks and barnacled SUVs and explore the wreckage of a great American city.

From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2017

That script, a series of rhymed couplets barnacled with topical quips, “was so impenetrably difficult,” she said.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2017

With difficulty did I make my way across the seaweed beds and barnacled rocks beneath us.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson