How to Use crust in a Sentence

crust

noun
  • He likes pizza with thin crust.
  • Her children prefer to eat their sandwiches with the crust cut off.
  • The Earth is formed of the crust, the mantle and the inner and outer cores.
    Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Frozen pizzas made with cauliflower crust may be your best bet.
    Kathleen Felton, Health, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Or maybe your tea is a slice from the middle, full of flavor without the baggage of a crust.
    Bryan Washington, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Spread over crust and bake until set, 25 to 35 minutes.
    Woman's Day, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The cookie-like peanut butter crust is filled with a gooey peanut butter filling that gets topped with crunchy peanuts.
    Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2024
  • When ordering, just choose your crust, toppings and sauce, and your pizza will come to your door ready to pop in the oven.
    Shanon Maglente, Good Housekeeping, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The oldest rocks taken from the lunar surface can indicate when the moon’s crust formed.
    Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The lander launched in 2018 and used seismic imaging to probe the planet’s mantle, crust, and core.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Meanwhile, American omelets cook longer than their French counterparts (hence, the crust).
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2023
  • It is thought to be a fragment of an igneous crust of a primitive protoplanet from the early solar system.
    Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The 2023 version of the BNY will be made with different crust and cheese.
    Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Underneath its icy crust Enceladus is thought to have a warm saltwater ocean that might support microbial life in its dark depths.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Janie’s, which specializes in pie crust cookies, or mini pies with fruit fillings, produces about 1,500 cookies per day.
    Alix Strauss, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Because ruthenium is abundant in asteroids and extremely rare in the rock forming Earth’s crust, traces of it are almost a surefire sign of space rocks.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
  • But tides and winds, plus coastal topography and changes in the Earth’s crust, meant that even the averages often differed significantly from place to place.
    Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Featuring tender noodles, swathed in an outrageously cheesy, ultra-creamy sauce, and topped with a crisp, panko-parmesan crust — this macaroni and cheese is the definition of comfort food.
    Robin Miller, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Using the tips of the shears, poke a hole and then snip the top of the crust.
    Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 28 May 2024
  • Once crust forms on top of the snow, the birds get up on top and run around on it.
    Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 3 Jan. 2024
  • That little bit of crust helps the bread soak in all the custard.
    Jessica Furniss, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Charles Lewis is the wizard of crusts known as Pie Guy.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The cheese spills out of the middle and accentuates the edges of the crust.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Spoon the mixture back into the crust, top with more cheese(!) and bake.
    Julia Levy, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Even after sitting in the deli case for a bit, the dough was chewy and the crust firm and blistered.
    Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Bake until the crust is browned and puffed, about 35 minutes.
    Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appétit, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Earthquakes occur when the plates that make up the Earth's crust move around.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The toppings and crust were crispy and the cheese was melted to perfection.
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The crust and filling don’t cook at the same rate; the crust needs more time than the filling to fully cook.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Brushed with butter, the sandwich is pressed until the crust is crisp and the cheese is gooey.
    New York Times, 18 June 2024

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