Rising, as a flood

Usage examples of cresting.

Where the Duke pointed, crescent dune tracks spread shadow ripples toward the horizon and, running through them as a level line stretching into the distance, came an elongated mount-in-motion--a cresting of sand.

A mound-in-motion ran parallel to their rock island--moonlit ripples, sand waves, a cresting burrow almost level with Paul's eyes at a distance of about a kilometer.

It became a mound of cresting sand that curved away through a saddle in the dunes.

It appeared to be more than half a league long, and the rise of the sandwave at its cresting head was like the approach of a mountain.

Its cresting front segments threw a sandwave that would sweep across his knees.

The worm came on like some great sandfish, cresting the surface, its rings rippling and twisting.

The point of that band was just cresting the mountains as the pursuing Posleen again found the fords to turn Digna's flanks.

My RPVs lasted maybe two minutes after cresting the Continental Divide.

Trees spread away before him in a tangle of trunks, limbs, and vines, and ridges thrust upward sharply into their mass, cresting against a skyline that was canopied in roiling mist.

A crow sat on a branch of deadwood halfway across, a large, ugly bird with a streak of white cresting its head.

The three had worked their way through hills and ridges grown thick with stunted briar and tangled brush to a forest of deadwood, cresting a deep ravine.

He was strong, but not infinitely so, and he usually needed a cresting tide of emotion to source his power: fear, hunger, longing, rage.

He stopped as close as possible to the guardrail, over which lush oleander bushes loomed like a great cresting green tide.

Now that events forced him to open himself to the world again, he was swamped by emotion as a novice surfer was overwhelmed by each cresting wave.

Narrow chimneys pierced the slanting tiled roofs, and iron crestings ran along the gutters.