How to Use crest in a Sentence

crest

1 of 2 noun

• But at the crest of the hill, there was a stunning sight.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
• The cedar wax wing, with its black mask and fuzzy crest.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• But it’s better known as the crest of Wave Three of ...
  — Paul J. Larkin, National Review, 21 Aug. 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
• Head up and over the crest of the Peru Peak Wilderness.
  — Kristin Smith, Outside Online, 31 Aug. 2022
• Helping highlight this is the Porsche crest on the hood.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2022
• The crest comes two hours and 40 minutes after the initial dam breach.
  — USA Today, 17 Nov. 2022
• Yet the new line, which cut through the crest of Elgon, severed one Kalenjin tribe, the Sabaot, in two.
  — Jonathan W. Rosen, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• In the crest, Carson created the bull with a pile of dung under him.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
• Gone are the spears, the twin American flags, the bald eagle clutching a white crest, the beehive, the sego lilies.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
• Waves crest and break whether somebody is there to witness it or not.
  — Mike Postalakis, Spin, 5 Sep. 2023
• In the video, Uno can be seen peeking over the crest of a hill at Girardeau before walking down the hill.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• Just then came the hellish noise of an engine, and a motorcycle rose over a crest.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 20 Apr. 2023
• The everlasting ice that gleamed from its rugged crest spoke of a world in balance.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
• On the back, the university’s crest is displayed above the player’s last name.
  — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022
• There, Seville frames sit outside a shop bearing the Cadillac crest.
  — Amir Vahdat, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
• The star, director and producer are riding the crest of a wave.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
• By the time the searchers reached the crest, 100 mph wind gusts were blasting across the mountaintops, stinging their faces and roaring in their ears.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Dec. 2022
• Crusaders’ crest logo is across the chest, with ‘28′ on sleeves and back in purple tackle twill.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2022
• The caseback has a special engraving of the Hamilton crest.
  — Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
• The shirts are traditional red and white with a crest featuring a maple leaf.
  — Leanne Italie, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2022
• Their wingspans were about 21 feet across, and some research suggests that the males had larger head crests.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
• The store had a royal warrant for the provision of gifts to the royal household, and the crest is proudly displayed on the front of the building.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2022
• The sharks in study were found primarily in the wave-break zone – the point where waves begin to crest – and where surfers and beachgoers are.
  — USA TODAY, 17 June 2023
• In late 1973, on the crest of a new summer climbing season in the Andes, a four-man team was assembled to look for them.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• Chateau Eza, at the crest of the hilltop on which the town perches—which offers à la carte French and Mediterranean cuisine—gets our vote.
  — Nick Scott, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2022
• And in the finished basement, a shelf near the pool table holds a wooden work that depicts the family crest.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2023
• There is also a 20-30% chance of thunderstorms Tuesday, but most of those should remain along the crest of the Cascades.
  — oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2023
• Far below an aerial shot, jade-green waves crest and unfurl to the swelling and swirling notes of an orchestra.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 10 Jan. 2023
• Aside from the one-piece crest grille embossed with diagonal lines to mimic the nose of the gasser G80, there's really no telling the two apart from the front.
  — Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2022

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crest

2 of 2 verb

• We crested the hill and looked out around us.
• In 2011, Hurricane Irene caused the river to crest once more.
  — New York Times, 1 Nov. 2021
• 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
• In the distance, rising flames crest what looks to be a steep mountainside.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
• 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
• 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 Lions’ defense hasn’t allowed any opponent to crest the 30-point mark in the past 10 games.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• 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
• People started packing up to leave, as clouds rolled in and the waves crested higher.
  — Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2023
• The wave had crested, but more repeatedly slammed to shore.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2023
• The heat wave about to crest over the Pacific Northwest is nothing like summer in the rest of the United States—outside of the deserts, anyway.
  — Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 26 June 2021
• The advanced carver should look for skis that crest the top of their head for more stability.
  — Krista Crabtree, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2022
• Temperatures are expected to crest near 56 degrees Sunday and in the 60s for the first three days of the workweek.
  — oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2021
• The river, which runs through the state capital, is expected to crest at 36 feet on Tuesday.
  — Jay Croft, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• These waves too had all crested by the mid-’80s, thanks again to factors largely outside of Reagan’s control.
  — Sean T. Byrnes, The New Republic, 6 July 2023
• Oil demand from road transport is also very close to cresting.
  — Colin McKerracher, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023
• When added together, the wind and waves pushed the water level in New York Harbor to crest at nearly 14 feet above normal.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 18 May 2021
• The surf will crest to 7 feet or higher north of Carlsbad, and the entire coastline will be raked by strong longshore currents and rip currents.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 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
• It is expected to crest at 36 feet on Monday, August 29th in Jackson.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2022
• But the tendency didn’t just crest in that difficult moment.
  — Charlene K. Lau, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021
• As the wave gets closer to the shore, changing shape, the 2D image changes with it, appearing to show the wave cresting, and subsequently, breaking.
  — Lewis Gordon, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 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
• Rivers near Cocoa were expected to crest overnight, but are expected to slowly decline out of the minor flood stage through the midweek, the NWS said.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2022
• Here’s how the bank failure is cresting through financial markets.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2023
• However, Pope predicts the water level will crest at 33 feet on Wednesday and could be as low as 28 feet on Thursday.
  — Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2022
• Blair is a band of Brooklyn zoomers steeped in ’90s DIY indie and frayed emo who make melodic, shambolic rock songs that crest and fall apart in the most beautiful way.
  — Vogue, 7 Dec. 2021
• The river is projected to crest at 36 feet by early Monday morning.
  — Fox News, 27 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024