Sentence examples for encrusted with barnacles from inspiring English sources

Inside were what seemed to be fused metal pieces, but the bronze was so encrusted with barnacles and calcium that it was difficult to tell what it was.

It is that his signature pieces — 1960s credenzas that look as if they are encrusted with barnacles — have been met with turned-up noses and occasional disgust from the most powerful people in the design world.

Intact and encrusted with barnacles, the flaperon was found on a beach and sent to France for scrutiny by the BEA and members from its Malaysian and Australian counterparts.

Mr. Maas and the others began combing the beach and picking up the flotsam that had accumulated, including roof shingles, beer cans, nail-studded beams and pieces of bright blue plastic foam encrusted with barnacles.

Among the most ancient of all the whales, grays are also by far the homeliest, their gunmetal bulks encrusted with barnacles and lice and the crisscrossed scars of everything from orca attacks to the blades of boat propellers.

Despite a massive international search, the fate of the Boeing 777 aircraft remained unknown and until a week ago whenthe flaperon – encrusted with barnacles – was washed up on Réunion.

'Barnacle monster' draws beach crowds Jump to media player A piece of driftwood encrusted with gooseneck barnacles draws crowds to Burry Port, Carmarthenshire.

Over the years, Mr. Stewart's public image has become encrusted with the barnacles of the all-American "Jimmy Stewartt character apotheosized by Capra in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and "It's a Wonderful Life". More than all of his other work put together, those two films created the aw-shucks image that has become Mr. Stewart's annuity in age and maybe a straitjacket.

That's what marine biologist Ceridwen Fraser thought when she spotted a piece of seaweed encrusted with large barnacles on a New Zealand beach in 2009.

It is in fact a large piece of driftwood encrusted with gooseneck barnacles - which are a delicacy in Spain, according to council ranger Emyr Richards.

— As perhaps suits a tale of the sea, Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" is encrusted with layer upon layer of barnacles.