(1) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(2) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
(3) This all crept up on me while I wasn't paying attention.
(4) When the ice-cold water crept up the hollow of my neck, when my boots and trousers became as heavy as lead, it wasn't so bad that it stopped me from keeping up with the others.
(5) A team of French paratroopers crept into the town by moonlight, advancing from the airport, they said.
(6) The team's response to the goal was to look for the pair with every attack but the closest they came was through Ravel Morrison's 20-yard free-kick in the 23rd minute, which would have crept under the crossbar had Karl Darlow not made a fine save.
(7) NHS England figures further reveal that the proportion of those patients not treated within 28 days of being turned away from operating tables has crept up to 5.6% – a four-year high.
(8) Coalition policy to accelerate rises to RPI plus 3% were twice modified by the chancellor George Osborne ahead of January rises as inflation crept up, but fares rose by over 6% annually in 2011 and 2012.
(9) I crept up to the security guard on one side of the runway and saw he was not someone I should try to rush past.
(10) Its opening party this year crept forward to the last week of May, coinciding with the International Music Summit, which rivals Miami's Winter Music Conference as the most important event in the calendar for the dance music industry.
(11) Prices of petrol and diesel both crept up around 1p a litre last month.
(12) Leicester could probably have been excused if a little weariness had crept in – nobody, Ranieri said, had slept a great amount over the past week – and for the first time this season it was the occasion, perhaps, rather than the result, that mattered.
(13) The prosecutor, Gerrie Nel, gradually zeroed in on the critical moment when the athlete crept into his bathroom with a 9mm pistol and shot four times.
(14) An early lead, a dominant start; Northern Ireland could not have wished for a better opening but the home side’s confidence and urgency belatedly surfaced as carelessness crept into the visiting performance.
(15) I was worried the weight of the sadness that crept into my whole being over the course of her decline and departure from this world would just keep expanding until it crushed me completely.
(16) He went for the ball, it’s football and these things happen.” The dismissal gave Tottenham plenty of time to search for a winner and while they monopolised the ball, Watford went close to stealing a goal by forcing a succession of late corners, including one from Ben Watson that almost crept over the line.
(17) Perhaps a little bit of complacency crept in from Barcelona after the interval but, to give City their due, they did at least remind themselves they were meant to be the home side.
(18) Concern has increased in recent years, as oil finds have crept closer to the disputed border.
(19) But since the end of the sectarian war in 2008, Baghdad has crept towards a cautious normality, albeit under a very heavy security presence at almost every junction.
(20) Volleys of bullets from the rebels' Kalashnikovs whizzed mostly towards army positions, but some flew down the boulevard and prompted those who had crept too close to throw themselves against walls and to the floor.
Crest
Definition:
(n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
(n.) The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of the wearer; hence, also, the helmet.
(n.) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it, or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a relic of the ancient cognizance. See Cognizance, 4.
(n.) The upper curve of a horse's neck.
(n.) The ridge or top of a wave.
(n.) The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
(n.) The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
(n.) The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
(n.) The top line of a slope or embankment.
(v. t.) To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
(v. t.) To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes.
(v. i.) To form a crest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence, the absence of NGF receptors on premigratory neural crest and early migratory neural crest cultures was not due to enzymatic alterations of the receptor.
(2) Predominantly observed defects included neural crest cells in ectopic locations, both within and external to the neural tube, and mildly deformed neural tubes containing some dissociating cells.
(3) Our results suggest that cAMP may be an important regulator of phenotypic expression in at least some neural crest cell lineages.
(4) Neural crest cells give rise to various essential tissues in vertebrates.
(5) In the present study, we have compared the phosphorylation state of the fibronectin receptor in motile neural crest and somitic cells, in stationary somitic cells, and in Rous-sarcoma virus transformed-chick embryo fibroblasts, using immunoprecipitation following metabolic labeling.
(6) The staining method consisted of sequential treatment of slides with crest serum, fluorosceinated goat-antihuman and swine-antigoat antibodies, and propidium iodide.
(7) The participation of neural crest cells in development of the dermal skeleton is discussed by way of the repartition of the odontods within the pectoral fin.
(8) The talus was revascularized with a vascularized corticocancellous iliac crest bone graft.
(9) When the method proposed by Trela (1975) is applied, thin layers of the petrous crest are chiselled out until the common crus of the superior and posterior semi-circular becomes apparent.
(10) The center of resistance was located at 0.24 times the root length measured apical to the level of alveolar crest.
(11) By means of immunoreactivity for spot 35 protein, a novel cerebellar Purkinje cell-specific protein, the regional heterogeneity among non-pigmented ciliary epithelial cells of rats was demonstrated with reference to the antero-posterior and crest-valley directions of individual ciliary epithelial folds in immature and mature eyes.
(12) This is done by scoring the septal cartilage in its basal attachment to the maxillary crest, providing a "swinging door" which can be sutured finally as desired.
(13) The type II, III, IV, and V boutons appear mature at all ages examined but crest synapses formed by the type III terminals are observed in the later stages of the study.
(14) The use of the pectoralis major muscle only flap in conjunction with a free iliac crest bone graft for reconstruction of the mandible is described.
(15) The outer coat turned to be extremely sculptured, presenting as interlaced crests of various height.
(16) The effects of AAGTP are different in nervous tissue from other tissues, and experiments with that nucleotide have led to the discovery of a new, 32 kDa GTP-binding protein which appears only in neural crest cells.
(17) The neural crest has been suggested as the origin of the ectomesenchymomas.
(18) He had huge eyes, a wide, deep brow, an angel's mouth, with the upper lip crested.
(19) We have examined the distribution and function of the defined cell adhesion molecules, N-cadherin and N-CAM, in the emigration of cranial neural crest cells from the neural tube in vivo.
(20) On E7, a slender neuropil was present in the migrating cell clusters, but all the crest derived cells were uniform.