Example sentences for: crests

How can you use “crests” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The roller-coaster dips and crests of the city’s hills, breaking up the monotony of the standard grid system of streets, reach a crazy climax on Lombard Street between Hyde and Leavenworth.

  • A wave that crests now could be a ripple by early March.

  • Height was recorded to the nearest 0.5 cm, weight was measured to the nearest 0.1 kg, and these data were used to calculate body mass index (BMI, in kg/m 2 ). Participants' minimum waist girth was measured using a steel tape at the natural indentation or at a level midway between the iliac crests and the lower edge of the rib cage if no natural indentation was present; hip girth was measured at the level of the greatest protrusion of the buttocks.

  • Sheer cliffs up to 300 m (984 ft) high bound the caldera, and a number of whitewashed settlements nestle along their crests — looking from a distance like icing melting down the sides of a Christmas cake.

  • With oases in sight, awesome dunes rise in waves to 250-m (800-ft) crests.


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