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crescent

adjective as in sickle-shaped

noun as in sickle-shaped object

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If partly to mostly cloudy skies allow a glimpse, check out the sliver of new crescent moon on the western horizon with Mars and Venus in conjunction.

The sliver of a new crescent moon on the western horizon with Mars and Venus in conjunction is likely to be obscured early Sunday evening but has a better chance to be seen Monday evening.

For this week’s Classic, let’s take a closer look at a waxing crescent moon.

The industry has its critics, such as Prince William residents concerned that data centers will spoil the beauty of its western rural crescent.

The crescent-shaped pastries called shekerbura, filled with crushed hazelnuts, sugar and cardamom, look more like something to admire as art than ravage with fingers and teeth.

Leaving the OR that night, I looked up the clear sky, at the flocks of white seagulls and a sliver of crescent moon.

Tipitina's in the warm blue fog, squatting beneath a crescent moon so sharp and clean you could shave a wild hog with it.

More Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers have been killed in this conflict than in any other since records have been kept.

The head of Iran's Red Crescent rescue corps, Mahmoud Mozafar, said communications to the stricken areas have been cut.

The Syrian Arab Red Crescent recently estimated that 2.5 million people have been displaced within the country.

The valve-seat H has formed on its lower surface two crescent shaped long and narrow slits.

From her windows could be seen the crescent of the river, the masts of ships and the big chimneys of the Mississippi steamers.

It floated out upon the night, over the housetops, the crescent of the river, losing itself in the silence of the upper air.

On either horn of the crescent by which the pebbles are imported into the pocket we find the largest fragments.

They are ranged around a crescent-shaped table formed of cushions, and wear festive crowns upon their heads.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to crescent, such as: bowed, bow-shaped, concave, convex, crescentic, and crescentiform.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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