Cresting

Word CRESTING
Character 8
Hyphenation crest ing
Pronunciations /ˈkɹɛstɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Cresting"

What do we mean by cresting?

An ornamental ridge, as on top of a wall or roof. noun

In architecture, an ornamental finish to a wall or ridge; a crest, as the range of crest-tiles of an edifice. noun

An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof. noun

Present participle of crest. verb

An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof. noun

Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.

To reach the crest of (a hill or mountain)

To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.

To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.

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The word "cresting" in example sentences

They were lazily gliding through the water, or sleeping on the sandy bottom, and one shark was kind enough to show off its Jaws” dorsal fin cresting the surface of the water” impression. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And St. Louis, you're kind of cresting now, but you're going to hold steady there for days to come. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It doesn't matter how good a sandbag is, it needs to be in good company to turn the flow of a cresting flood. ❋ M.D. David Katz (2011)

I think of how overwhelming the crowd must be to someone just cresting three-feet tall. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The floodwaters of political extremism may be cresting. ❋ Pablo Eisenberg (2011)

Happily, though, Stern's dense, tumbling, ever-cresting sound has remained constant in the face of cleaner production. ❋ Kitty Empire (2010)

It's a wave of violence that's cresting along with a tide of hateful, insurrectionist rhetoric that far too many conservatives refuse to condemn. ❋ Eric Boehlert (2011)

He pauses after cresting the ridge and gives me a shot at about 100 yards or so. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Upon cresting the hill, they drove beneath the gateway into a courtyard where additions and wings moved in every available direction. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

We can assume that the federal government is going to compensate the people whose lands have been flooded by the Corps' decisions, though this in turn is sure to precipitate claims for compensation by others who've been damaged by the cresting river. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I gasped, an electric rush cresting down my spine. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

One step and then another and then I was floating, the waves cresting against my skin, salt water dripping from my hair. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

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