How to Use crested in a Sentence

crested

adjective

• A lot of folks have noticed flocks of smaller crested waxwings mixed in with the robins.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2023
• The monkey, a crested macaque named Naruto, took the selfie in 2011.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2017
• In less than 40 years, the crested black macaque has declined here by over 80 percent.
  — Becca Cudmore, Slate Magazine, 19 June 2017
• The crested auklet looks like a smiling clown that never blinks.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2021
• The whistling of wind through the feathers of crested pigeons are made by tendons that slide as a natural part of their gait.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2010
• Those species range from the clouded leopard (above left) to the giant panda (right) to the world’s last 30 Hainan black crested gibbons.
  — Glenna Gordon, National Geographic, 3 Sep. 2020
• One of the most striking examples is the crested cactus.
  — Athena Aktipis, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
• Puff is a sassy, strong and sensitive crested duck named for her fluffy hairdo.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2017
• An exception is the crested wood partridge of Southeast Asia, whose chicks stay in the nest and are fed by their parents for about a week.
  — Animals, 10 Dec. 2020
• The hot sun, the wide-brimmed hat, the white sunglasses and bikini, and the white-crested waves are all remembered; the foreground crustaceans are pure Schutz.
  — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 26 June 2017
• Smolts are picked off by birds like double crested cormorants and caspian terns.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
• Rather than try to explain the crested saguaro, simply Instagram it.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 3 Oct. 2019
• An Australasian crested grebe, also known as a pūteketeke bird.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
• The monkey, a crested macaque named Naruto, snapped the photos in 2011 with an unattended camera.
  — Sudhin Thanawala, chicagotribune.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Harbor seal pups pop up and down in the calm waves lapping around you, and double-crested cormorants flap their wings in your direction.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 11 June 2017
• For a rodent that resembles the love child of a skunk and a steel wool brush, the African crested rat carries itself with a surprising amount of swagger.
  — Katherine J. Wu New York Times, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
• For instance, scientists have long known that crested pigeon wings whistled when the birds flew.
  — Charles Choi, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2017
• But this time is different, just a sea of Lebanon’s cedar-crested flags carried by protesters.
  — Time, 22 Oct. 2019
• The rufous-crested coquette was a bit of a disappointment.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• The crested saguaro is an uncommon specimen that grows a scalloped crown.
  — WSJ, 26 Feb. 2023
• In Britain, the great crested grebe was driven to near extinction, hunted for its head feathers, which stand out like a halo when breeding.
  — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 25 May 2023
• For many years, Anthony claimed Bob Ross, a blind white-crested Polish show rooster, could tell fortunes.
  — Kelly Kazek, AL.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Also spotted was a crested caracara, a bird which is described as a tropical version of a vulture.
  — John S. Marshall, Houston Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2017
• The thumb-size short-crested coquette is found only in the forest edge along a roughly 15-mile stretch of road in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain in southern Mexico.
  — National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2018
• Bailey explains that certain birds, like wrens, tree swallows, and great crested flycatchers, will nest in gourds.
  — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2023
• A great crested-flycatcher then called, a little closer.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 23 Aug. 2017
• In 2011, a crested macaque used an unattended camera at a reserve in Indonesia to take pictures of himself.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 2 May 2018
• Police were watching What causes a crested saguaro cactus?
  — Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2022
• But the tiniest of these hummers was the one that elicited the most excitement: a Festive coquette, an extremely rare green-crested bird with a white rump patch, only three inches long.
  — James F. McCarty, cleveland.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• The team took creative liberties, too, of course, including adding an expanding, rattling frill for the crested predator dilophosaurus, which devours a hapless Wayne Knight.
  — Asher Elbein, Vulture, 11 July 2023

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024