How to Use crest in a Sentence

crest

1 of 2 noun

• The crest is the true home run.
  — Sean Gentille, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2026
• Any update on the new club crest?
  — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
• Love the colors, love the crest.
  — Sean Gentille, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2026
• Waves crest and break whether somebody is there to witness it or not.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• Winds gusting as high as 100 mph at the crest.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 31 Mar. 2026
• Penalties, club crests, tackles, the length of the grass.
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
• Sierra crest ridgetops could see gusts as high as 100 mph.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 30 Dec. 2025
• Or is this merely the crest of a wave that’s been building for a long while now?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2026
• Winds could gust as high as 75 mph along the Sierra crest.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 20 Apr. 2026
• There are four elegant crests to choose from in six colors.
  — Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 15 Apr. 2026
• If the bow and stern of a heavy-laden ship are both sitting on a wave crest, the ship’s hull can sag.
  — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 29 Dec. 2025
• The result looked like it was emblazoned with our own crest.
  — Danielle Calma, Travel + Leisure, 21 Jan. 2026
• At the same time, a big bull sable galloped out from behind a bush headed for the crest.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026
• The Evija seemed to be riding the crest of a massive wave.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2025
• The club crest is an image of someone with empty pockets.
  — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
• The everlasting ice that gleamed from its rugged crest spoke of a world in balance.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
• Just then came the hellish noise of an engine, and a motorcycle rose over a crest.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 20 Apr. 2023
• Behind the judge’s chair hung a massive crest of an eagle with wings spread, its fierce beak turned stage right.
  — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
• The crest comes two hours and 40 minutes after the initial dam breach.
  — USA Today, 17 Nov. 2022
• But if over that amount falls near the river, the crests could be greatly impacted.
  — Madeline King, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
• Despite tweaks along the way, the crest looks basically the same.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
• And then the sea sent the boat shooting upward again, to the crest of a wave, the sky a blanket of stars.
  — Martin Suarez, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2025
• Both have a red crest and black-and-white plumage, each arranged differently.
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2022
• At the end of that private road, Tim Ernst lived in a house perched on the crest of the bluff.
  — Benjamin Hale, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• On our flight back, the pilot has some fun, swooping through valleys and banking sharply around crests.
  — Brent Rose, Outside, 28 Feb. 2026
• The raw material, the colors, the crest are great.
  — Sean Gentille, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2026
• The iguanas are known for their distinctive casque (helmet-like crest) and long, thin limbs.
  — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
• In the crest, Carson created the bull with a pile of dung under him.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
• The shirts are traditional red and white with a crest featuring a maple leaf.
  — Leanne Italie, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2022
• The star, director and producer are riding the crest of a wave.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023

crest

2 of 2 verb

• We crested the hill and looked out around us.
• Oil demand from road transport is also very close to cresting.
  — Colin McKerracher, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023
• In the distance, rising flames crest what looks to be a steep mountainside.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
• Henley's voice crested toward a shriek.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
• The advanced carver should look for skis that crest the top of their head for more stability.
  — Krista Crabtree, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2022
• People started packing up to leave, as clouds rolled in and the waves crested higher.
  — Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2023
• The rain abated in the coming hours, and water crested a foot shy of the dam’s threshold.
  — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• Fire progress slowed as the fire crested some of the initial ridges and began backing downhill.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• But as air crests the peaks, areas on the northeastern, downwind side see less snowfall.
  — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
• Right now, warm water is barely cresting the moraine, then flowing down a seabed canyon toward the glacier.
  — Christian Elliott, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
• The river is expected to crest on Friday evening.
  — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
• Gold broke a new record on Tuesday, cresting at over $4,000 per troy ounce.
  — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
• Maybe the blacktop crested a ridge and dropped into a cool, lush valley with a river running through it.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
• Here’s how the bank failure is cresting through financial markets.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2023
• Forecasters warned that some major rivers were expected to crest over the weekend.
  — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 20 July 2026
• Jacques and Noisette Denver’s French food wave crested in recent years.
  — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2025
• Miller, one of the other cadets, sat on a bench on the rear of the ship one afternoon as hundreds of dolphins crested above the waves.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026
• Light blue to violet flowers appear in late spring, marked with white falls and often, crested with a yellow frill.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 May 2026
• But some models have offered hope that the current Massachusetts wave could crest soon.
  — Ryan Huddle, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
• At the same time, Celebes crested macaques visit the piles of plastic to try and get liquid out of the containers.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• The water crested about four feet above Café Hollander’s kitchen.
  — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• The river crested in La Crosse on Wednesday evening at just less than 16 feet.
  — Madeline Heim and Brittney J. Miller, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
• In 2011, Hurricane Irene caused the river to crest once more.
  — New York Times, 1 Nov. 2021
• The river is expected to crest near 17 feet on Saturday.
  — Noel Brennan, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
• So with Splash, Howard had a chance to crest into the mainstream, and Hanks had his first starring role in a movie.
  — Rance Collins, Entertainment Weekly, 10 July 2026
• The idea of a jobs guarantee or the idea of school desegregation were cresting in the mid-to-late ’60s.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
• Based on wastewater data, Weiland predicts that the American wave has reached its peak and will soon crest.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 11 Jan. 2024
• The Celebes crested macaques have learned that these bottles contain liquid and are often seen chewing off the caps to reach the contents.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The silt has resulted in much of the wash bed sitting at an even level with the surrounding land, causing floodwater to crest its banks.
  — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
• The river, which runs through the state capital, is expected to crest at 36 feet on Tuesday.
  — Jay Croft, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022