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The mountain peaks jetted into a cloudless Dodger-blue sky as the wind whipped and the waves beneath crested and crashed.—Dan Woike, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2025 But when the crested anoles arrived, everything changed: Suddenly, brown anoles with longer legs had a survival advantage.—James T. Stroud, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2025 The crested anoles spent more of their time living in trees, and were found to perch higher up on average than the brown anoles.—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025 Cao vit gibbons, or eastern black crested gibbons, have maintained incredibly small populations following their rediscovery in 2002 by researchers with Fauna & Flora, and only 74 individuals are thought to live in the wild.—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crested
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