Example Sentences

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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

Here I saw the ceaseless working of those little coral insects whose efforts have encrusted the islands of the Pacific with vast rocks and surrounded them with enormous reefs.

From The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

They have encrusted the walls with them; and many antiquities of other kinds have been deposited here since those days.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

Here I saw the ceaseless working of those little coral insects whose efforts have encrusted the islands of the Pacific with vast rocks, and surrounded them with enormous reefs. 

From The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)