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Sentence Examples Magnfied a dozen times, you can see the city centre and Hillbrow forming a greyish crescent at the bottom. Michael's headlong flight meant he and Kieran were going to clip off the vanguard of the right horn of the crescent. The area around your pinky is where you'll start hunting for the razor thin crescent moon. On March 8th, the razor thin crescent moon lies only 6 degrees to the left of Mars. If leap days were not added, the beginnings of months would soon not coincide with the first sighting of the lunar crescent. The 0 section of the ankh is actually a crescent moon, facing up, and the top is an open eye. The Moon's orb of around 12 degrees is also that which separates the luminaries when the new crescent Moon reappears after conjunction. The end result is a three-storey, south-facing crescent, terminating in a taller building at either side, creating a book-end effect. In selenodont molars, the enamel ridges form characteristic crescent shapes. One swallow does not make a summer, but one tophus makes gout and one crescent malaria. The crescent of land that crowns Michigan's lower peninsula offers perfect topography, soil, views and weather. Yohanna's fingers traced a silver crescent mark on the babe's forehead and in that brief moment Yohanna recognized her. He could make out the swell of her left breast, harbouring a half moon crescent of dancing light as she did so. Carved from Lapis Lazuli a duck Egyptians saw a mysterious connection between the sicklebills of the ibises and the crescent moon. The stars popped out on the black canvas of the sky, and the crescent moon silvered the edges of the clouds, turning each one into a masterpiece. They are green and white, and they carry their national symbol, the star and crescent, silvery bright and shiny. Selena blushed as she opened the present, and found it was a necklace with a crescent moon charm. On sunny days, Ke'e is a lovely crescent of tawny sand crouched below an upsweeping ridge line. The foliage of a tree provides a set of natural pinhole cameras, producing crescent images during the partial phase of a solar eclipse. It was this crescent of rock that the ancient master builders transformed into a swiss cheese of 25 viharas and five chaityas. Show More Sentences Above Nick, just over his forehead, there was a crescent shaped piece of metal with thousands of tiny spikes. A thin crescent moon hung in starlit skies, giving off just enough light for him to see by. Overhead, the Milky Way washed across a star-studded sky, while out to sea a perfect crescent moon rose in honour of the Turkish flag. In daylight on the 25th, the planet is occulted by a slender crescent Moon. The last time they met in the crescent chamber, it was in funeral black, with Donald Dewar's seat left empty to mark their grief. She fingered the charm on her necklace, a golden sunburst with the shape of a silver crescent moon in the center. She pulled down her glove and stared at the red symbol on her palm, a basic crescent insignia. On the morning of the 27th a waning crescent Moon appears on the southeastern horizon, well below and to the right of Venus. Inlaid furniture, kilim rugs with horsehair tassels, and multicolored lamps with crescent moons complete the decorative program. A crescent moon had just risen though it was not yet dark, and the cicadas were singing. A blanket of stars was sparkling above them and a crescent moon sat far in the distance. The visible image shows the night side of the crescent Earth looking toward the South Pole. She was wearing a light blue winter coat with matching earrings in the shapes of crescent moons. The moon, waned away to a tiny crescent, didn't emit enough light for him to be sure of his way. Thirty-three hours later, as the Moon set in the west, it would be visible as a slender crescent. The crescent of the New Moon glowed in the indigo heavens, and to his left, Venus, the Evening Star of Ishtar kept him company. On the morning of the 19th the yellowish planet will be below and to the left of the Moon's crescent. She found him standing alone in the moonlight, staring up at the waxing crescent. Above me, a silver crescent moon hung, now and then, clouds of dark shadow misting across it. The Moon will be a waning crescent, just a few days from New, and so will not interfere. Show More Sentences The moon waxes from new to sickle, crescent, half-full and disk, and wanes back again as the relative positions of sun and moon change. The view is from Titan's night side, making the moon appear as a thin crescent. The moon was a bright crescent among the sea of stars, each one glowing brightly. It will not be washed out by moonlight this year, since the Moon will be a waning crescent just a couple of days from New. The long crescent of white sand is shaded by seagrapes and coconut palms and framed by wooded hills. The house is at the centre of a picturesque crescent of houses surrounding a green. Now all that surrounds us is a close crescent of dagger-edged, obsidian-black hills. Occasionally a tiny crescent of pure, clean sand provides a few steps of respite. Put a generous dollop of beef into the centre of each circle and fold over to form a crescent. They couldn't see another sign of human life along the three-mile crescent. The street was in fact a crescent with a large, Victorian home situated at the very end. Now, 10 years later, the trees are growing strong, welcome news to the pearl crescent butterfly. The handle was just a sharply carved crescent moon shape, crudely cut from a tarnishing piece of bronze. Transfer the cookies to the prepared sheet pans and bend to a form a crescent shape. Set on the center was a beautiful purple gem, the shape of a crescent moon. Bring the edges together and pinch to seal firmly, forming a crescent shape with a flat base. It had become a small floating island shaped like a crescent moon, surrounded by a light blue, metallic ocean. The shape of a crescent moon was visible against the gray-blue painting overhead. The beach was set out in a crescent moon shape with the ocean lapping up onto the white sand. A tiny silver crescent moon hung from the chain, glinting in the torchlight streaming in from the open door. Show More Sentences Its golden hilt had a crescent emblem in the middle shaped like the full moon, shining brightly with golden carvings on its contours. Graven in its surface is a lightening bolt, a cloud shedding rain, the crescent moon, the all seeing eye. Around her neck she wore a pendant shaped like a crescent moon. The moon appeared as a thin crescent in the dark, cloudy blue sky. Every month, the first crescent of the new moon is observed, defining the beginning of the new month, whilst each year Ramadan commences 11 days earlier. The bowed bottom of the anchor recalls the horns of the crescent moon, an attribute of the Egyptian goddess Isis, the queen of heaven and the virgin mother of Horus. The horns of the crescent moon were pointed almost straight up. A crescent moon arched overhead, its halo adorning the dark canvas. 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. In the Aldine engravings Abydos passes from the crescent to the cross. Seen from space a sunrise takes on a glory all of its own, the dark shield burning like a crescent of fire-gold as the sun rose from beyond the curve of the horizon. The crescent ray grew to immense proportions and then flew downward. A waxing crescent moon rose in the eastern sky over the sleeping village. Thus, a square is convex, but a crescent quadrilateral is not. He tried a high roundhouse and was met with an inside crescent by Jordan. They responded on Saturday, flying a journalist to the rock by helicopter, ripping down the Hellenic stripes and running up the star and crescent. The fireworks party was organised by all of Ben and Sarah's neighbours in a small communal garden at the back of the crescent of houses where they live. From the quay, the taxi which has transported me from the ferry port skirts the wide crescent of beach before twisting and turning all the way to the top of the island. She had a golden cloak that had a clasp in the shape of a crescent moon. Show More Sentences Astronomy was necessary to view the lunar crescent for religious purposes. As our return flight curved past Wakatobi, the mounds, ridges and huge crescent moons of the reefs we had been diving shimmered pale topaz in shallow pools of turquoise. There is a single persistent bract subtending each pedicel and the seeds are crescent shaped and ridged along the margins but not undulate or furfuraceous. Another omen claims that if the first crescent of the new Moon appears with its lower horn obscured, stormy weather is indicated in the first phase of the Moon. Ritchie got out of his car and walked up to number 34 Stanford crescent. The area is turfed with crescent shaped borders planted with deep blue cineraria, white echiums and yellow genistas and other various bedding plants. We had rolls and butter, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, cabbage salad, and pastries that were shaped like crescent moons and stuffed with roast meat and apples. Although this is a night side view, with only a thin crescent receiving direct sunlight, the haze layers are bright from light scattered through the atmosphere. As I was laying there on the cool grass, looking up at the starlit and crescent moon sky and dark silhouettes of roses, I felt more at peace than I had in awhile. Once out into space, they grouped together into the standard crescent position, where the Wing Leader is at the centre front, with 2 on either side slightly back. Suddenly, she saw the big buck, its crescent horns piercing the blue sky. As it approaches us, it appears bigger and more of a crescent shape. About half of the crescent roll dough sold is used in recipes, as it lends itself to numerous shaping options,'' says Vettel. The crescent City is reinventing, rebuilding and reimagining itself. The French and Spanish fleet now formed an uneven, angular crescent, with the slower ships generally to leeward and closer to the shore. The cheek teeth of deer have crescent ridges of enamel, which enable them to grind a wide variety of vegetation. Bsides these two great bands, the fore-box has a small one called the wither-band, and a crescent to keep up the wither arch. A vivid black beauty mark with a reddish, crescent border flares out from the trailing edge of its gill cover. With less sugar and fat than competitor crescent rolls, they can be stuffed with fillings or served from the oven as a perfect side to any meal. The crescent will mark the start of the Hijri month of Shawwal, the first day of which is celebrated as Eid al-Fitr. Show More Sentences The Pillsbury conversation involved 30 bloggers posting recipes involving Pillsbury crescent rolls and a content hub at www. Contract awarded for it is the replacement of the crescent roll of san gregorio in the borough of niquen. A rare happy moment under the crescent City Connection bridge. Other features include a full-length standing seam barrel vault penthouse and a crescent walk with belvedere overlooking a new pond. This great semicircle, for lack of a name, may be called the fertile crescent. He lifted the Jesus piece, the Hebrew star of David, and the star and the crescent that were all dripping with diamonds. A curving crescent, often looking out at gardens or a park, was popular for terraces where space allowed. The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent in the city of Bath, England. However, the tradition of distinguished gentlefolk retiring to the crescent continued. The road is surfaced with pennant stone laid when the crescent was constructed. The 1965 film Catch Us If You Can also had a sequence filmed outside the crescent and in one of its houses. The remains of a Roman wall were found behind the crescent and evidence of possible Iron and Bronze Age settlement on the lawn in front. These emblems often involve the star and crescent symbol taken from the Ottoman flag. The ancient Axumite Kingdom produced coins and stelae associated with the disc and crescent symbols of the deity Ashtar. The female is similar but duller, and younger birds often lack the breast crescent. Parabolic dunes, like crescent dunes, occur in areas where very strong winds are mostly unidirectional. Brush mixture on each triangle of dough before rolling into crescent roll. There was a crescent eaten out of a vine leaf by a sphingid larva. Grigg and his colleagues found that the parasite, a microscopic creature shaped like a crescent moon, also infects about 80 percent of ringed seals but doesn't make them sick. The upper wings of the moth which Jacob held were undoubtedly marked with kidney-shaped spots of a fulvous hue. But there was no crescent upon the underwing. Show More Sentences Moreover on the cylinder seals of the third and second millennia, the crescent is almost always depicted below the sun disc and quite close to it. His creative powers were, as Shakespeare said, still crescent. Astarte's heavenly emblem was the planet Venus, Tanit's the crescent moon. Those challengers were fought off despite the hostile forces having encircled the Philippine archipelago in a crescent formed from Japan to Indonesia. The caudal fin has a strong lateral keel and a crescent shape. Examples from Classical Literature Dare you to wear your brother's coat without the crescent which should stamp you as his cadet. High-bowed and pooped, and curved like the crescent moon, it was the strangest craft that he had ever seen. To the left at one tip of the crescent the flash of swallowtail Light glowed and died like the fire in a gigantic cigarette. There was one born in the sky, sir, the day I was christened with a Turkish crescent. Each of us were drawn by him, she with the cincture of Venus, and I with the crescent of Dian. He announced this also by an anagram, and waited till it should become a crescent, which it did. Instead of the palmette is sometimes a crescent, no doubt in allusion to the moon. The crescent rests on a baseline formed by the slowly-proceeding line of women, children, and baggage-horses. In one hand the youth held a phillips screw driver, in the other a six-inch crescent wrench. The extremities of the lunar crescent, in which form she is said to be horned. The cupper, Knox, preferred the crescent blades because they gave a sharper cut. He ate off the crescent of water biscuit he had been nibbling and, hungered, made ready to nibble the biscuit in his other hand. Her impresa, the crescent of Diana, is conspicuous on his palaces, and he even caused it to be engraved upon his coins. At either end of this crescent or demilune is a large orbweb, surmounted by a tower. We were sitting in a narrow balcony that seemed to jut out of a horn of the city's lovely crescent. The coins of Zamasp have the usual inflated ball and mural crown, but with a crescent in place of the front limb of the crown. They bear on the obverse the head of the king with the usual mural crown surmounted by a crescent and inflated ball. A meniscus, so called from its resembling the crescent moon. They kept a distance of about one and a half lengths, so that the horns of the crescent were nearly thirty miles apart. The minaret is faced with tiles and is surmounted by a gilded crescent. Show More Sentences On his chest, suspended from a single string of porpoise-teeth around his throat, hung a big crescent carved out of opalescent pearl-shell. The bayou curved like a crescent around the point of land on which La Folle's cabin stood. It floated out upon the night, over the housetops, the crescent of the river, losing itself in the silence of the upper air. Diana had sped an arrow from her bow that is like the crescent moon. The crescent moon and the stars filtered down a tinsel light. From her windows could be seen the crescent of the river, the masts of ships and the big chimneys of the Mississippi steamers. The horns of the crescent slowly moved apart, until at last they formed a line from Hanwell to Coombe and Malden. The crescent moon, set like a silver signet in the western sky, delayed a little the approach of night. A thin crescent moon was out, silvering the river and the trees. The Germans numbered sixty-seven great airships and they maintained the crescent formation at a height of nearly four thousand feet. Wandering across the celestial sphere, the vagrant will pass close to Mars, Uranus, the thin crescent Moon and the Andromeda galaxy. Overhead drifted a pale crescent moon, and the Southern Cross burned low in the sky. The oxygen-planet to sunward showed again as a lighted crescent. Laussedat, in watching the eclipse of July 18, 1860, probed that the horns of the lunar crescent were rounded and truncated. I would sing, loudly and tunelessly, and bury my hands deep as the mud turned my nails into black crescent moons. Maple buds are small, and the leaf scar is a small, narrow crescent. The knife, which is shaped like a crescent, that cuts with the convex side, falls from a less height, and that is all the difference. The waxing crescent moon and a five pointed star facing northwest in rising position are in the centre of the obverse face of the coin. It was in its octant, and showed a crescent finely traced on the dark background of the sky. His back was to the Plutonian, his face to the crescent of chiefs. Show More Sentences The first stroke of the razorlike crescent athwart any portion of the band, would so detach it that it might be unwound from my person by means of my left hand. Corresponding to the crescent in our van, we beheld another in our rear. Just as prehistoric people spread from the fertile crescent into other lands, the gulf of space will be crossed with new caravels and new colonists to settle new worlds. On July 8, there will be a nice grouping of Mercury, Venus and a crescent Moon lying close together low down on the horizon in the WNW at about 9pm. At the decisive battle of Mukden, the silk-worm army, with a million legs, crept against the Russian hosts in a vast crescent, a hundred miles from end to end. But on that high ground, and in the crescent, which the wind swept round and round as if it were going to tear the paving stones up, its fury was tremendous. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of crescent? Words that rhyme with crescent What is the past tense of crescent? What is the plural of crescent? What is the adverb for crescent? What is the adjective for crescent? What is the noun for crescent? Translations for crescent Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words crescendos crescendoing crescendoed crescendo crescendi crepy Crescent crescentic crescent moon crescents crescent-shaped cresent 8-letter Words Starting With c cr cre cres cresc cresce crescen