Example Sentences

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“We were cresting the fairway on 15. We thought it was a scoreboard or a grandstand,” said Sahith Theegala, who is playing in his first Masters.

From Washington Times • Apr. 7, 2023

By 6 p.m. that evening, huge waves were cresting over Balboa Pier and flooding through Balboa Peninsula, an idyllic oceanfront community in Orange County barely above sea level.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2020

“All that gave us the feeling like we were cresting a beautiful wave,” Brock recalled.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2018

Smith was in college when Vietnam and the women’s movement were cresting, and the Perseverance Theatre troupe she created in Juneau, Alaska, often created work that reflected local citizens’ issues and concerns.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2017

For, indeed, they were cresting a corner of London which is almost as precipitous as Edinburgh, if not quite so picturesque.

From The Innocence of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)