Crust

//kɹʌst//

"Crust" in a Sentence (23 examples)

Under Europa's icy crust might be an ocean of water.

You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Mary doesn't make pie crust. She usually buys it pre-made.

The snow lay on the ground, frozen into a thick, hard crust.

This pizza has a thin crust.

The weight of aluminium in the Earth's crust corresponds to 8.13% of the total weight.

It's the 11th most common element in the Earth's crust in fact.

Sodium is one of the most abundant elements in the Earth's crust.

I have served you all these years and you never gave me so much as a hard crust, but the dear children gave me their own loaf of bread.

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Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.

They […] made the crust for the venison pasty.

Holonyms: lithosphere < Earth

The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle.

Holonyms: lithosphere < planet

to earn one's crust

Like most of us, I am frequently asked by friends and people I meet in business situations or round the dinner table what I do to earn my crust.

You've got a lot of crust standing there saying that.

“Oh?” she said. “So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –” I saw she needed helping out. “Audacity,” I said, throwing her the line. “The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house.” It should have been “whom”, but I let it go. “You have the –” “Crust.” “– the immortal rind,” she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, “to tell me whom” – she got it right that time – “I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who” – wrong again – “I may not.”

“Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”

The whole body is crusted over with ice.

Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.

, The Goblin Reign Boxed Set Thistle held her hand over the wound and pressed a wad of tree moss against it. "Don't move," she said. "Let it crust."

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