Sentence examples for as a crest from inspiring English sources

Instead, some deep-ocean tsunami sensors detected the initial wave as a crest.

These ran in particular as a crest along the spine and were especially long and thick over the neck and back of the head.

The crest badge of Clan Macfie contains as a crest: a demi lion rampant, proper.

It substituted for the helmet of military arms, but also appeared as a crest placed atop a helmet, as was common in German heraldry.

In 1965, the Australian Academy of Science was granted arms with a Black Swan as a crest, alluding to the Academy's "Australianness" and its location in Canberra.

Overall, the architectural form of the Marine Parade Community Building has been described as a "dragon", with the roof as a crest and the artwork as the eye of the dragon.

( I am one of the few surfers who enjoys paddling -- the chance to feel like a rubbery fish -- as much as flying on a crest).

It is shiny silver in colour, with long, red, oarlike pelvic fins and a long, red dorsal fin that rises as a manelike crest on top of the head.

Important differences were found in the keel structure, which in control oothecae appears as a prominent crest, the top of which coinciding with the hatching line, with paired and periodic aeropyles opened on both sides (Figure 4C, D, F).

BACs covering the centromeric domain (Supplementary Fig.  2), as determined by ChIP-on-chip, were used as FISH probes, and a CREST serum was used to detect the functional centromeric domain.

"Blue Crush," a sort of "Gidget Goes Tubular," comes along just as surfing is reaching a crest of hype.