How to Use crested in a Sentence

crested

adjective
  • Puff is a sassy, strong and sensitive crested duck named for her fluffy hairdo.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2017
  • Smolts are picked off by birds like double crested cormorants and caspian terns.
    — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The crested auklet looks like a smiling clown that never blinks.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The fever of the day is over and the sunlight is bouncing off the vast crested ocean in dancing sparkles.
    — Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 May 2024
  • If there were no crested anoles present, long legs did not correlate with better survival.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
  • 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 anoles spent more of their time living in trees, and were found to perch higher up on average than the brown anoles.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
  • For instance, scientists have long known that crested pigeon wings whistled when the birds flew.
    — Charles Choi, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2017
  • The crested saguaro is an uncommon specimen that grows a scalloped crown.
    — WSJ, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Rather than try to explain the crested saguaro, simply Instagram it.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 3 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • That means roughly two out of every three homes include a furry, feathered, scaly or crested companion.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The monkey, a crested macaque named Naruto, took the selfie in 2011.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2017
  • For instance, Kent pointed out a small crested blue chalk fingers plant, or Senecio vitalis.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • 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
  • Bring your binoculars to zoom in on endemic species such as the Coiba howler monkey, the crested eagle, and the scarlet macaw.
    — Siobhan Reid, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2024
  • 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
  • The order basically changed the eagle in the emblem from a crested eagle found all over the world to an American bald eagle.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Eight crested ibises were released into the wild in a north-central Japanese town, decades after the birds went extinct in the country.
    — ABC News, 31 May 2026
  • The monkey, a crested macaque named Naruto, snapped the photos in 2011 with an unattended camera.
    — Sudhin Thanawala, chicagotribune.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Fortunately for us, many cool birds remain in our area to breed, including yellow warblers, great crested flycatchers and wood thrushes to mention a few.
    — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 May 2021
  • 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
  • Her tiny Chinese crested dog, Lily, saunters in and out of the room, occasionally sitting on her lap and staring at the massive charcuterie plate in front of us.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • DeLuca lists the great crested flycatcher, prothonotary warbler, chickadees, nuthatches, Eastern bluebirds, tree swallows, and purple martins as among birds that will nest in a hollow or snag.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 May 2026
  • The juvenile is healing in the company of an adult crested caracara also being rehabilitated by the Gulf Coast Wildlife Rescue.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Laying claim to more than 800 acres teeming with apple orchards, gardens both botanical and medieval, 500 British white cattle, 400 sheep, about 80 red deer and an armada of great crested newts — the Newt has more than a few.
    — Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025

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