Examples of crested in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Police were watching What causes a crested saguaro cactus? — Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2022 Early migrants reported from Santuit Pond in Mashpee included a great-crested flycatcher and a blue-gray gnatcatcher, and other sightings included a blue-winged teal, 68 ring-necked ducks, 2 bald eagles, and 16 osprey. — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2022 The café was encircled by a wall of logs, sharpened on top like pencils, with frightening, elongated, crested faces of Cossacks wearing large earrings carved on them. — Artem Chapeye, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022 The crested auklet looks like a smiling clown that never blinks. — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2021 Fortunately for us, many cool birds remain in our area to breed, including yellow warblers, great crested flycatchers and wood thrushes to mention a few. — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 May 2021 Neel’s portraits of the 1960s and 1970s are peopled with incredible, crested human bouquets. — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2021 One of the most striking examples is the crested cactus. — Athena Aktipis, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021 An exception is the crested wood partridge of Southeast Asia, whose chicks stay in the nest and are fed by their parents for about a week. — Animals, 10 Dec. 2020 See More

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