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Sentence Examples The treetops were bathed in moonlight from the gibbous moon but beneath their boughs the shadows held sway. The waning gibbous moon was obscured by thick clouds so I had trouble making out the road in front of me. The cloudiness will decrease and the waning gibbous moon will shine later tonight. The rising gibbous moon was ghostly from New Jersey, but by the Manhattan evening it was sharp and bright. The male hooded merganser, with his distinct gibbous moon crest, demands immediate attention. It is inky dark, with fireflies flashing in the trees and a gibbous moon hanging over Venus. We will see the Moon waxing in its gibbous phase the early part of the week, while the last two days see it gibbously waning. The open doors to the garden let in the hard white light of the gibbous moon, and the heady smell of night-blooming flowers. My hand was clasped around hers, and the light of the gibbous moon set a silver path out before us. The gibbous moon rides low across the southern sky these evenings, and for the next few days it is crossing the constellation of Scorpius. The waxing gibbous moon was still behind the scudding clouds, but it was far from pitch dark. She set off through the dark, silent woods, as the gibbous moon surfaced from its sea of clouds. As I nestle into my bedroll and blanket, I gaze up at the sky and see that a couple of stars have come out and also a gibbous moon has risen in the north. The year is on the wane, has passed its gibbous phase and is now into that delicate fingernail-clipping shape that children draw in pictures to denote the moon. On the 16th Jupiter appears to the upper left of the waxing gibbous Moon. The desert beyond is dimly visible in the light of the gibbous moon. A wan and gibbous moon appeared briefly before it followed the sun. Tonight, the bright crater Aristarchus is visible on the gibbous Moon. Because the moon was waxing gibbous to the folks back home, we had to wait out the shadowed portion on the other side. They left the car and walked down the road in the milky light of a gibbous moon that lit the feathery edges of a high, isolated cloud. Show More Sentences The Moon lights up too much of the sky when it is gibbous, quarter or full, preventing us from seeing fainter stellar objects. The moon is gibbous and yellow down at the end of the main street. Tilted-eyed huskies bay the rising gibbous, candles flicker nervously behind frosted window pains and wooden sledges jounce over the snow-covered scree tracks. If you get out the telescope or binoculars for a look at Venus, you'll see immediately that it is not a star, and that the disc is not fully lit by the Sun, so that it might appear gibbous, half-lit, or as a crescent. Examples from Classical Literature If she were white, she might pass for a Caucasian, but for that gibbous under-lip. The moon was gibbous in its approach to the full when the boat left Vicksburg. The esculent variety, in Europe, is the common green or gibbous frog, the Rana esculenta of Linnus. The pileus is often umbonate or gibbous, and the center is often darker than the margin. Under the stars, under the gibbous moon, assuredly they would sleep. At the junction of Thornaby Road and Bader Avenue the Spitfire sits on the roundabout under a bright waxing gibbous moon. The night was clear, and a gibbous moon was high in the sky. Over the top of the great ranges a gibbous moon rose slowly. A gibbous moon brightened the sky and silvered the slopes about me. However, there are possibilities that the bright moon, also called as waning gibbous moon, will wash out some Lyrid meteors this year. Unfortunately the Moon will spoil the party to some extent this year, as on the night of maximum it is waxing gibbous in nearby Taurus. Steep and gibbous behind, becoming at length smooth and equal. Eye of toad, tongue of newt, take at midnight by the light of a waning gibbous moon while swinging a black moggie by its tail. As I stood there musing over this too perfect triumph of man, the full moon, yellow and gibbous, came up out of an overflow of silver light in the north-east. There was a bright gibbous moon and a billion stars overhead. Explore Jupiter during the Ecotarium Skywatch program Jupiter and the Waxing Gibbous Moon. Find more words! 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