Synonym: crescent, crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar. Similar words: decrescent, fertile crescent, crescendo, fluorescent, phosphorescent, descent, senescent, quiescent. Meaning: ['kresnt] 
n. any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters. adj. resembling the new moon in shape.
n. any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters. adj. resembling the new moon in shape. 
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1. The moon was a brightly shining crescent.
2. They live at 15 Park Crescent.
3. I live at 7 Park Crescent.
4. A glittering Islamic crescent tops the mosque.
5. A crescent moon peeped out from behind the clouds.
6. Turn right at the corner of Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards.
7. Turn left into Badgerly Crescent.
8. Del Norte County pesticide storage area near Crescent City.
9. Saw the white crescent, tipped earthward.
10. A slim crescent of moon rose in the sky.
11. About frangipani blooms and crescent moons.
12. A crescent moon showed occasionally which helped.
13. The moon was a slender crescent,(http://sentencedict.com/crescent.html) and a few tattered clouds shuffled across the perfect dome of blue-black sky.
14. They broke into the house in Scotto Crescent through the patio doors and made off with several ornaments.
15. No progress to report on the Baberton Crescent scheme but enquiries have been received from Woodhall area.
16. The stars and a thin crescent moon shed just enough light to show where the path led up through the trees.
17. The hours of darkness spent at Sloane Crescent were taking on a hallucinatory quality.
18. A thin crescent moon will appear to the left of Venus the evening of July 6.
19. The crescent moon is a common feature of the flags of Islamic countries.
20. Hale-Bopp and the waxing crescent will be easily visible in the Western sky after sunset Thursday and Friday.
21. The month began when the new lunar crescent was for the first time visible again after sunset.
22. By the time John parked in Sloane Crescent the sun had vanished behind lowering cloud, and it was starting to rain.
23. They decided a housing co-operative was the way to regenerate Ormiston Crescent.
24. Guy Sterne's magnificent villa stood alone, on its own private crescent of beach.
25. The flare of its passage is as bright as-10. 5 magnitude, comparable to a crescent Moon.
26. Two accused, he alleged, were seen by witnesses planting the device at Primity Crescent, New Buildings.
27. That night John escaped from the oppressive gloom of Sloane Crescent and embarked on an evening-long drinking spree.
28. She was amazed how much easier the tube journey to Mornington Crescent was at this time of the day.
29. A high wind frayed the sails of clouds until a crescent moon limned each shred with white gold.
30. Good binoculars and a steady hand may reveal it as a thin crescent.
More similar words: decrescent, fertile crescent, crescendo, fluorescent, phosphorescent, descent, senescent, quiescent, adolescent, iridescent, evanescent, pearlescent, effervescent, descend, descended, condescend, descendant, adolescence, descendants, obsolescence, acquiescence, condescension, convalescence, behind the scenes, scent, ascent, nascent, renascent, reminiscent, transcendent.