crested

How To Use crested In A Sentence

• After climbing a steep rise for about twenty minutes the road crested, then began to slope downwards, taking a more westerly direction.
• Usually shy and retiring, the crested argus is not easy to observe.
• Black crested gulls swirled along the atmosphere; the air was permanently imbued with the scent of salt and fish, fresh or otherwise.
• Well-known breeds -- including dachshunds, poodles and collies -- will participate, as well as breeds you'll seldom see outside a dog show, such as the Chinese crested, Tibetan spaniel and spinone Italiano. Post-gazette.com - News
• Here the goddess wears her high-crested helmet, and a himation replaces her aegis over the peplos.
• Sometimes seen feeding alongside vultures at carcasses is the longer-necked and larger-headed crested caracara (Polyborus plancus), a hawk with distinctive markings. Did you know? Mexico's vultures have very different eating habits.
• Their heads were helmed and crested in silver, and their skin was a black that could also have been green, or deep gray.
• He was holding a staff that was a bronze color, and was crested with a bronze moon.
• This not-so-subtle slam at the dangers of genetic engineering depicts a Grant-Wood-Iowa country-fair display of square tomatoes, a multiteated cow and other oddities in an unmodified soybean field, plus a pathetically overbred Chinese Crested dog, presented on an oval insert like a blue-ribbon prize. An Illustrative Career Depicting Dystopias
• He slowed the pace as they crested the ridge.