| Salt crystals encrust your shoes and coat your pants cuffs, and you begin to think your own cells are turning to salt. |
| Zebra mussels encrust any solid structures in the water and block water pipes. |
| For some time, he seems to have been growing dissatisfied with the gradualist, uniformitarian patina which had grown to encrust evolutionary theory. |
| An engine's heat melts the fine-ground rock, which proceeds to encrust the cooler parts of the mechanism, stopping it from working. |
| I was an instant behind myself: I saw what it all was, but the thought could not encrust itself with meaning. |
| Well-studied examples occur in the hydractiniid hydroids, which encrust hard substrata with stolons that serve as tube-like connections between feeding polyps. |
