NOUN
- the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail
- the time at which the Moon is at first or last quarter when half its face is illuminated
How To Use half-moon In A Sentence
- Scoop out the cores and cut the apples across into thin half-moon slices.
- They may be square in shape like ravioli or in half-moon or oblong shapes.
- In a sweeping half-moon behind me, the rugged, unspoiled Inishowen Peninsula rolls out across this little known spear of North West Ireland.
- It was past ten at night and the yard was dark, with a half-moon lighting the way.
- A bright half-moon clung to the side of the main house like something unfinished, and Neal could see the fever trees that lined the drive, thick with roosting vultures, bald-headed and silent, and the rolling tilt of the hills that clustered on the horizon and then dropped off into Ngorongoro. The Laugh
- Fold the dough circle in half to form a half-moon.
- The half-moon lit the roof of its cab, the shovel, and part of the jointed arm that controlled it. A THIEF OF TIME
- The priest's daughter took down the mandore, drew near the couch on which Poëri was stretched, leaned the head of the lute against the wooden bed-head hollowed out in the shape of a half-moon, stretched her arm to the end of the handle of the instrument, the body of which was pressed against her beating heart, let her hand flutter along the strings, and struck a few chords. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt
- Beneath his eyes were thick wrinkles which dropped down his cheeks in a series of half-moons.
- Her main objection was our liberal use of garlic, that pungent bulb with its pretty, papery sheath, encasing ivory-coloured segments, shaped like half-moons.