CRUST in a Sentence

Learn CRUST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

37 example sentences for CRUST, such as:

1. Cut the crusts off when you make sandwiches.
2. We saved a few crusts of bread for the birds.
3. Minerals occur naturally in the earth's crust.
4. She told us a simple method for making a pie crust.
5. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until the crust is a golden color.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRUST
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crust
 n.  outer layer ; covering; coat; shell
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  But somewhere, this cloud, this crust, this doubt, this dust--She waited for a rhyme, it failed her; but somewhere surely one sun would shine and all, without a doubt, would be clear.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
2  After which offensive implication, he cut himself a crust of bread, and threw the knife down with a noise.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
3  He had a crust of bread, a coarse shirt, and two pairs of stockings, in his bundle.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Oliver walked twenty miles that day; and all that time tasted nothing but the crust of dry bread, and a few draughts of water, which he begged at the cottage-doors by the road-side.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a crust of metallic deposit all over it.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
6  Biddy was waiting for me at the kitchen door, with a mug of new milk and a crust of bread.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXV
7  The pigeon-pie was not bad, but it was a delusive pie: the crust being like a disappointing head, phrenologically speaking: full of lumps and bumps, with nothing particular underneath.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
8  All our meat turned out to be tough, and there was hardly any crust to our loaves.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
9  His own taste was in the line of less solid and more highly-seasoned diet; but hunger makes any fare palatable, and there had been times when Mr. Stepney had been reduced to a crust.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
10  I have known what it is to be a street-waif, a bootblack, living upon a crust of bread and sleeping in cellar stairways and under empty wagons.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
11  I know somewhere about what things are likely to be; but there's no trimming and squaring my affairs, as Chloe trims crust off her pies.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  Upon which Candide carried him to the Anabaptist's stable, and gave him a crust of bread.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In IV
13  The black beggar is never turned away without a good deal more than a crust, and a call for help for the unfortunate meets quick response.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
14  All about us the snow was crusted in shallow terraces, with tracings like ripple-marks at the edges, curly waves that were the actual impression of the stinging lash in the wind.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
15  The blue of the line was crusted with steel color, and the brilliant flags projected.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
Example Sentence:
1  Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until the crust is a golden color.
2  Bobby was such a fastidious eater that he would eat a sandwich only if his mother first cut off every scrap of crust.
3  It�s at the junction of the two continents of Europe and Africa where the earth�s crust is broken and fragmented.
4  Topsoil is the upper surface of the Earth's crust, and usually is no deeper than approximately eight inches.
5  She told us a simple method for making a pie crust.
6  The Panther took pie crust, and gravy, and meat; While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.
7  The lithosphere is the more or less stable crust of the earth, which may have been, to begin with, about fifty miles in thickness.
8  Minerals occur naturally in the earth's crust.
9  Remove the dish from the oven, crack the salt crust and you will find the skin just peels off the fish.
10  We saved a few crusts of bread for the birds.
11  Cut the crusts off when you make sandwiches.