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

Rates fluctuate throughout the year, but in a recent search for dates in March, rooms at La Samanna, on the secluded, crescent-shaped beach of Baie Longue, could be found for around $1,640 and up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 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

On her scalp, carefully hidden by her scanty hair, Mammachi had raised, crescent-shaped ridges.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy