CRESCENT


Meaning of CRESCENT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a crescent moon (= with a thin curved shape )

The stars and thin crescent moon gave just enough light to see the path.

Red Crescent

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

moon

A slender new crescent moon lay on its back high in the clear night sky.

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

Turn left into Badgerly Crescent .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A slender new crescent moon lay on its back high in the clear night sky.

Estate land swings round in a crescent to the east, up to the A19.

Guy Sterne's magnificent villa stood alone, on its own private crescent of beach.

He blew through his lips, his eyes were narrowed to crescents.

Instead, everywhere the eye could see, were tiny glimmering half-moon crescents.

Saw the white crescent , tipped earthward.

The moon was a slender crescent , and a few tattered clouds shuffled across the perfect dome of blue-black sky.

Then he smiled a sunny smile which turned his mouth and eyes to crescents.

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