Sue Hubbell

Healthy camel crickets spend a lot of their waking hours grooming, so I have learned to recognize the ones that will soon die because they walk about encrusted with sand and bits of litter, having lost all interest in keeping clean.

American Author

Gary Hamel

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

American Businessman

Joseph de Maistre

Man may well have covered over and, so to speak, encrusted the truth with the errors he has loaded onto it, but these errors are local, and universal truth will always show itself.

French Diplomat

Kacey Musgraves

I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.

American Artist

The word suggests a tactile quality, implying you can feel the roughness or hardness if touched.

Physical Texture

When encrusted with unwanted substances, it often indicates neglect or lack of cleaning.

Implies Neglect

The encrustation can give objects a visually unappealing or dirty look.

Visual Impact

When related to jewels, 'encrusted' implies luxury, opulence, and high cost.

Luxury Connotation

Items encrusted with jewels can symbolize wealth and high social status.

Fashion and Status

Jewel-encrusted items are typically worn on special or formal occasions.

Special Occasions

In geology, 'encrusted' often refers to natural processes that form a crust over time.

Natural Processes

Geological encrustation can indicate the age of rocks or fossils.

Aging Indication

 that different things crystallize out at different stages. When you evaporate seawater, the first thing to crystallize out is calcium carbonate. And that builds up on the evaporators -- and that's what that image on the left is -- gradually getting encrusted with the calcium carbonate. So after a while, we could take that out, use it as a lightweight building block.

Michael Pawlyn: Using...

 that there's life as a big dream we came to these things that were sticking up there kind of like pinnacles off the bottom and then they were completely encrusted

Encrusted