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crescent moons

n. (plural of crescent moon English)

Usage examples of "crescent moons".

In the same way, the three main lunar phases gave rise to the concept of the Triple Goddess who has been worshipped in cultures from palaeolithic times where early cave art displayed crescent moons that have been identified as Goddess symbols.

There were more cities, arcs of light like little crescent moons on the darkness.

The red blood cells of some people of African descent look like sickles or crescent moons.

They wore wide swords, and several carried battle-axes, the blades like lethal crescent moons.

His cloak was blue, the color of the sky on a clear summer's day, trimmed with a border of crescent moons, but as his blood seeped into it, the cloth darkened and the moons turned red, one by one.

Ahead, the ringed, back-lit globe of the gas giant loomed vast within its necklace of crescent moons.

Standards with long horsehair tassels topped by copper crescent moons gaping like dead men at the sky.

Stars already throbbed in the vastness of the early-evening sky, scarred as it was by a pair of crescent moons so slender their green was almost white.

The three interlaced crescent moons, in silver, dangling from a silver ear wire.

And apparently those fears had been well founded because the top of that fort was all fluttery with green banners bearing silver crescent moons.

Guinevere's symbol was painted on the walls inside the arcade in a repeating pattern of stags crowned with crescent moons.

Red ocher smeared closed eyelids, and a pattern of crescent moons marked the old woman's face.

What is more, on that night of crescent moons, Abdullah had been working with Nadir, so that when the new moon rose they both saw it through glass.