What is "encrusting"

Usage examples of "encrusting".

They walked to the measured cadence of the chant and to the drumbeat and the cymbal clash, toward steps that rose out of trailing weed and the encrusting shells of small things that live in shallows.

He glanced up at the people-nests encrusting the underside of the bridge, then turned his attention back to the water.

The husks of last winter’s dead flies were still encrusting the windowsills: the library was not a top priority for Mrs.

You could almost see the cold seeping into the granite buildings and the frost encrusting the looming castle, though in here the heating was set too high.

I set my face against the cold, invisible wall and could see barnacles, mollusks, sea snakes, and life-forms encrusting every surface, feeding on one another, while on my side—dryness, old rust, the only living things consisting of me and a small white land crab that had obviously migrated, as I had, from the shore.

I was transported, still naked and with only straw and the filth encrusting my body to shield me from the weather, in a wheeled cage formerly used to hold a bear.

The tyres had tungsten-steel studs for traction and the headlights had wipers to clear the encrusting snow, but that didn't mean fast driving and I suppose we didn't average more than 70 KPH and that was a shade fast for the conditions.

As he did so, a cracking sounded beneath his sandals as he broke free of the encrusting salt that had already begun to crawl up his legs.