encrusts
- present tense form of encrust (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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A black sponge that encrusts tidal pool rocks in southern Japan, Halichondria okadai, produced a drug, now marketed as Halaven, to treat late-stage breast cancer.
From Scientific American • Aug. 27, 2022
Moss encrusts the walls, rainwater drips down rusted steel beams, flimsy lights glow yellow in dark interiors.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2014
Unlike the atmospheric junk, which simply encrusts the surface, mercury seeps into microscopic flaws in the cylinders’ surfaces created by the polishing process.
From Economist • Jan. 10, 2013
Then, selecting the grains one by one, it encrusts them all around itself in the fabric of the bag and cements them with the fluid from its spinnerets, which hardens at once.
From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
Besides being a fairly strong disinfectant, it has a tendency to absorb odor, it encrusts the walls and lightens the interior of rooms.
From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Hastings, Edwin George
