crest

In a sentence

Six example sentences with crest, each labelled with its topic.

• We reached the crest just after sunrise and could finally see the lake sitting in the valley below us.

  Travel

• Riders spend twenty brutal minutes climbing, then coast from the crest all the way down to the coffee stop.

  Fitness

• Storm surge carried gravel over the crest of the dune, leaving the beach grass buried for the rest of the season.

  Environment

• The distance from one wave crest to the next is the wavelength, whether the wave is in water or light.

  Science

• The general held his infantry just behind the crest of the ridge, hidden from the cannon until the signal came.

  History

• From the crest of the dune the photographer waited for the shadow line to creep up the far slope.

  Photography

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