crescent-shaped
Example Sentences
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It is just past noon at the crescent-shaped Palolem beach on the southern tip of Goa's long, sandy coastline.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
For nearly two years, Al-Shubbak watched through ancient grey eyes as Tuti, the crescent-shaped island in the heart of the Sudanese capital she calls home, emptied of its inhabitants under a punishing paramilitary siege.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
The piston faces have small, crescent-shaped reliefs into which the valves extend near the top dead center.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
Delamere's research shows that our solar system's largest planet has a magnetosphere consisting of largely closed magnetic field lines at its polar regions but including a crescent-shaped area of open field lines.
From Science Daily • May 6, 2024
These clumps grew so large, particularly in the absence of oxygen, that they tugged the membrane of the red cell until the normal disk was warped into a crescent-shaped, dysmorphic “sickle cell.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
