noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a crescent moon (= with a thin curved shape )
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The stars and thin crescent moon gave just enough light to see the path.
Red Crescent
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
moon
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A slender new crescent moon lay on its back high in the clear night sky.
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The stars and a thin crescent moon shed just enough light to show where the path led up through the trees.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Red Crescent
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Turn left into Badgerly Crescent .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A slender new crescent moon lay on its back high in the clear night sky.
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Estate land swings round in a crescent to the east, up to the A19.
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Guy Sterne's magnificent villa stood alone, on its own private crescent of beach.
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He blew through his lips, his eyes were narrowed to crescents.
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Instead, everywhere the eye could see, were tiny glimmering half-moon crescents.
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Saw the white crescent , tipped earthward.
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The moon was a slender crescent , and a few tattered clouds shuffled across the perfect dome of blue-black sky.
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Then he smiled a sunny smile which turned his mouth and eyes to crescents.