Example Sentences

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The Peacock bowed his crested head, and they bowed their uncrested and very silly ones, and then they went to the river.

From Among the Farmyard People by Gordon, F.C.

The slopes of the roofs glistened, the dark broken ridges succeeded each other without end like sombre, uncrested waves, and from the depths of the town under his feet ascended a confused and unceasing mutter.

From Lord Jim by Conrad, Joseph

Such strips are often displayed from the conical top of an uncrested helm, and some ancient examples have the air of the two ends of a stole or of the infulae of a bishop’s mitre.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

Behind, towering over them like a huge wall, came a wave of black water, solemn, merciless, uncrested, as if bent on deadly revenge.

From Tides of Barnegat by Smith, Francis Hopkinson