| Other faunal elements include colonial and solitary corals, encrusting bryozoans, stromatoporoids, and rare brachiopods. |
| They tend to be the big head corals, the encrusting ones, but the reefs would lack the postcard species of the plating and staghorn corals in very large areas. |
| I gradually flung off the hardness that my late life of recklessness had been encrusting upon my heart. |
| They are covered in encrusting life and soft corals and often surrounded by big pollack and schooling fish. |
| I did not disturb her again, but stood by and watched her slowly move off with her encrusting family to a place of safety. |
| Before dark the snow turned to rain, which froze as it fell, encrusting everything. |
