Get to know Cresting better with 8 real example sentences, the meaning.
Cresting meaning
present participle and gerund of crest
Using Cresting
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of crest
- In the example corpus, cresting often appears in combinations such as: like cresting, cresting wave.
Context around Cresting
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cresting
- In this selection, "cresting" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, wave, see, palmetto, wave, shoreline and waves stand out and add context to how "cresting" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a wave cresting shoreline and attendance was cresting after two. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cresting" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cresting
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Perhaps you see cresting waves, schools of tuna, or sunlit kelp forests. (12 words)
By the time Guerrero came along, though, attendance was cresting after two decades of incredible growth. (16 words)
Also, several rivers were approaching record levels with cresting in some areas not coming until later in the week. (19 words)
You go back 3 or 4 years ago, we were cresting about 6x against that metric and been outside the range for some time because we were growing our data center business somewhat through acquisition, among other reasons. (38 words)
Even their most uninhibited documents of self-congratulations are haunted by the threat of overvloed, the surfeit that rose like a cresting flood – a word heavy with warning as well as euphoria. (32 words)
Mr Gesner, who died in 2022 at the age of 97, was a self-taught architect who designed the house to look like a cresting wave. (26 words)
Example sentences (8)
You go back 3 or 4 years ago, we were cresting about 6x against that metric and been outside the range for some time because we were growing our data center business somewhat through acquisition, among other reasons.
Mr Gesner, who died in 2022 at the age of 97, was a self-taught architect who designed the house to look like a cresting wave.
As hues of ocean water swirl throughout the illusionistic space, viewers are looking up to gaze down upon a wave-cresting shoreline.
Also, several rivers were approaching record levels with cresting in some areas not coming until later in the week.
By the time Guerrero came along, though, attendance was cresting after two decades of incredible growth.
Perhaps you see cresting waves, schools of tuna, or sunlit kelp forests.
Even their most uninhibited documents of self-congratulations are haunted by the threat of overvloed, the surfeit that rose like a cresting flood – a word heavy with warning as well as euphoria.
The cornice is composed of a carved scroll regularly interspersed with projecting lions' heads and ornamented with palmetto cresting along the upper edge.
Common combinations with cresting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: