crescent

Example Sentences

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The arm positions for Mr. Louis and Ms. Chapa passingly resemble archers’ bows or crescent moons.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We were excited to find that in our simulation, all the beach balls essentially made a trail from Sagami Bay up to right where we found the 'crescent helmet man-o-war' in the Tohoku region."

From Science Daily

Immigration, perhaps, is the second biggest issue on people's minds - even though there are very few immigrants in this Derbyshire town of 20,000 people, known for its opera house and grand Georgian crescent.

From BBC

David Roberts travelled to the area this morning from Penn to go shopping for his mother, who lives on the crescent.

From BBC

There was the crescent moon lamp that hung on the wall by my bed in a sky of lipstick shades and makeup brushes that I cut from issues of Allure and Elle.

From Los Angeles Times