sickle
Example Sentences
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In her hands was a sickle moon, and behind her was an outcrop of spindly red trees with branches that looked like crooked fingers.
From Literature
“Economically, the two groups fit together,” Ms. Ziegelman points out, with Christian farmers hawking livestock, produce, wood, straw and animal hides, while Jews sold clothing, housewares and other products, “from soap to sickles.”
While making the project, his mother suffered two strokes, his brother was treated for psychosis, and his younger sister died of sickle cell anaemia.
From BBC
"The first gene editing drug approved for a blood disease -- sickle cell anemia -- targets a cell-type specific enhancer."
From Science Daily
Cases include electrocution, drowning, overdose, scurvy, sickle cell anemia, a nail in the chest, a fastball in the eye and gallstones, with all the personal drama one expects from a hospital show.
From Los Angeles Times
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