half-moon

Example Sentences

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And then there are the Mayer’s new front doors, sporting curved, half-moon glass reminiscent of a classic theater.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

To this day, when the pool is drained, the hotel retouches the lines, refreshing Hockney’s iconic blue half-moon marks every year or so.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

Speaking on a crisp Friday morning at a lodge of an Italian-American fraternal group in the Des Moines suburbs, she addressed a packed room of mostly older voters arranged around her in a half-moon.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2024

The largest planet in the solar system will dominate the early evening sky on January 18, appearing beside a glowing half-moon.

From National Geographic • Dec. 6, 2023

Home is a rickety old dock and an outhouse with a half-moon cut in the door, and the bright orange flowers my mom called “outhouse lilies.”

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick