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

But I recognized the beginnings of a crescent-shaped machine in the back corner and the man staring me down from across the card table serving as his desk.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken