Example Sentences

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The salt water was crusting my mouth, and every breath felt like a punch as the sunlight hit my eyes.

From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2017

The tap hole was crusting over with cooling iron, still aglow.

From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford

Wild-eyed with despair she strove to pierce the opaque grey curtain which was crusting her face and hair with rime.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram

Fingal's Creek was almost at its usual level and the silt was crusting along its bedraggled borders.

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill