How To Use Half-moon In A Sentence
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Scoop out the cores and cut the apples across into thin half-moon slices.
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They may be square in shape like ravioli or in half-moon or oblong shapes.
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In a sweeping half-moon behind me, the rugged, unspoiled Inishowen Peninsula rolls out across this little known spear of North West Ireland.
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It was past ten at night and the yard was dark, with a half-moon lighting the way.
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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
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Fold the dough circle in half to form a half-moon.
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The half-moon lit the roof of its cab, the shovel, and part of the jointed arm that controlled it.
A THIEF OF TIME
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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
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Beneath his eyes were thick wrinkles which dropped down his cheeks in a series of half-moons.
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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.
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Illuminated in pale light from the half-moon he looked ethereal, nearly tinted blue, his facial features drawn and guarded.
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He remembered the judge's look of distaste over his half-moon spectacles.
THE SCAR
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It had been about a week since the half-moon and everything seemed peaceful except for one demon attack where they got a Silver Life Jewel shard, which Katia fused into the rest of the shard that she had collected.
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The whitish, half-moon-shaped area at the base of your nail is called the lunula (LOO-nu-luh).
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The remains of a small half-moon or redan battery on the point which had been constructed in the War of 1812, and played a considerable part in the battle of
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919
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It's imaginatively located in a lower, half-moon mezzanine area to the side of the bar.
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I relaxed slightly - the outline of Toji was visible by the glow of the half-moon, its light a lone beacon in the curtain of velvet night.
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Even the half-moon is obscured behind heavy gray cloud.
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A half-moon lit the sky and he watched the silhouetted clouds drift in and out of sight.
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Dolly came out with me, and we sat for a while, looking up at a bright half-moon and a sky thick with stars.
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His eyes were underhung with flabby half-moon plums.
Spider Bones
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In Jazz, the half-moons on Dorcas's cheeks and forehead indirectly testify to the torture she endured as a child, when she witnessed her father and mother stomped and burned to death during the East St. Louis riots.
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A half-moon lit the lawn blue and there was the occasional faint few bars of music coming from a record player a few houses down.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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I just had an early lunch and halfway through eating a conference pear, I discovered a half-moon shaped hole!
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The folded half-moon, a sort of quasi-calzone, hides a cache of fontina cheese gigged with emphatic sun-dried tomato: simple and effective.
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Sam glared fiercely up at the half-moon peeking through the branches of the weeping willow.
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The night cast its silent shadow over the clearing at the edge of the woods, storm clouds parting slowly, revealing the pale, flickering light of the half-moon that shone overhead.
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Log of _The Humane Hopwood_, which heretofore had been a kind of cabalistic Register, full of blots, crosses, half-moons, and zigzags, like the chalk score of an unlettered Ale-wife.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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But what about that halo around the half-moon tonight?
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One part of the exercise involved night skiing across the Snowy River illuminated by half-moon on a cold, clear night.
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Put each half flat side down and cut crosswise into half-moon slices the same thickness as the onion slices.
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The Knight just looked out into the blackness of the region, a half-moon shining down from above.
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Brush the top of one semi-circle with apricot glaze and place the other on top to form a half-moon sandwich.
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On the display screen appeared a perfect half-moon, very brilliant against a background almost free of stars.
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It's lovely out here - the night is calm, the lake is black and still, illuminated by the bright half-moon, and the trees seem to glow.
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The Voyager clock comprises a half-moon of off-white plastic, with a delightfully forced-perspective ship leering out at you.
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As we passed the point the whole cove burst upon our view, a half-moon of white sandy beach upon which broke a huge surf, and which was covered with myriads of seals.
Chapter 28
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Hues of purple, violet, teal and blue that were invisible in normal lighting came alive with the slight gleam of the white light from a half-moon.
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That's a half-moon Baker-style sofa in the living room, which is really nice but also very comfortable.
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Then fold the dough over the filling, pinching the two sides together until you have a half-moon dumpling.
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Excuse me 4 half-moon dot, do autocycle to be given to be blown by wind.
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He shows me what is inside the bowl—a tiny scorpion curled into a half-moon.
The Memory Palace
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Weaker tides occur at half-moon, when the sun and Moon are 90° apart.
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Brush the top of one semi-circle with apricot glaze and place the other on top to form a half-moon sandwich.
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But all I could see was the form of my tall aunt couched half-moonwise in Elton Reeve's lap.
Tramping on Life
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Begin removing three half-moon mounting bolts from each side, set half moons and bolts aside.
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A half-moon after she revealed herself to him, they conceived a child.
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Later comes a young greenkeeper carrying a very long, supple, tawny cane: he swishes it all over the circle of dewy grass in deft half-moons, sending up a shower of diamondy drops at every stroke.
Try Anything Twice
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He regarded Masters balefully, over his half-moon spectacles.
THE SCAR
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Slice the onions into half-moons, grate the ginger, grate the garlic, slice the leek into thin rounds.
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It's only what he once named it himself, that ear-to-ear smile, a fixed half-moon caught in quick-dry cement.
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Cal eyed the window through his half-moon reading glasses.
Three Stages of Amazement
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The spider is clamped by a sheet of wood with a half-moon aperture for its abdomen.
The gossamer cape: spun by a million spiders
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He remembered the judge's look of distaste over his half-moon spectacles.
THE SCAR
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The main dishes are large and filling (they come with a half soup, served in a half-moon shaped bowl or a salad), and, with an appetizer as well, there's heaps of food.
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Slice the onions into half-moons, grate the ginger, grate the garlic, slice the leek into thin rounds.
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Her mouth was full, and a half-moon of light accentuated the lustrous curve of her lower lip.
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He wore a smock, gardening gloves, and a pair of half-moon glasses with a smudge of mud on them.
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Some looked like toy crusader castles, with cylindrical turrets and half-moon windows.
Day of Honey
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• The lunula: The whitish, half-moon shape at the base of your nail underneath the plate.
You Being Beautiful
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The half-moon lit the roof of its cab, the shovel, and part of the jointed arm that controlled it.
A THIEF OF TIME
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The judges' half-moon raised podium runs around the east side of the room, with each name printed just below the rim of the surface for the courtroom to see.
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Under the sentence, a signature or logo of sorts had been stamped on in black ink - a sun and a half-moon.
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Much the same product occurs in Greece, as kourabiethes, half-moons or round, sprinkled with icing sugar.
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This time out we tried the shrimp nuggets, deep-fried half-moons stuffed with a whole shrimp in a creamy sauce, and topped with slivers of marinated red pepper.
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The mechanics have packed up and gone to bed before I end my day, shivering in the chill of the desert night under a vast array of stars, the half-moon lighting up the sand, the tents and the vehicles all around.
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But it's late afternoon along a desolate strip of Interstate 15 near Sheep Mountain, above which a pale half-moon is on the rise.
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Friends brought presents, especially neck-bands in the form of a half-moon (_lunulae_), and the golden balls (_bullae_) which were worn as a charm round the neck until the attainment of manhood.
The Religion of Ancient Rome
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The shape of a garlic bulb mimics a minaret; the cloves that make it up are like half-moons.
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No need to see the faded green wallpaper, the tired carpet, the half-moon telephone table, and the coat-stand in the hallway.
The Priest
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In the restaurant we stamp these into half-moons with a cutter but you can leave them as triangles if you like.
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West-facing, Fernandez Bay beach is on the protected side of the island, a superb, gently curving half-moon of sand a couple of miles long.
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In the crowd watching the competition, held mid-way between one end of this half-moon beach at Melaque and the other end at Barra de Navidad, are many of the hundreds of tourists who come here for the sun, sand and (some of them) the surf.
Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude
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A bridie was a plump hot pie in a half-moon shape, filled with minced steak and suet and spiced with onion.
Drums of Autumn
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Soon people were hanging on for their lives - and falling - 1,000 ft above the ground under blue skies and a pale half-moon.
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Her mouth was full, and a half-moon of light accentuated the lustrous curve of her lower lip.
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He was reading by the light of two hurricane lamps, holding the book so close to his half-moon specs they must have been making contact.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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The folded half-moon, a sort of quasi-calzone, hides a cache of fontina cheese gigged with emphatic sun-dried tomato: simple and effective.
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In quadrature, however, where the half-moon formed a right angle at the earth with the sun, the distance moon-earth had to be reduced to conform with this “evection,” as it was called later.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Great sheets of purple and gunmetal grey had appeared and the half-moon was leering down from behind a cloud.
DESPERADOES
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It is twilight, and a bright half-moon shines down on a small metropolis of wire pens.
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When her gaze skated past mine, I noticed purplish half-moons under her eyes.
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moon is 50 percent illuminated at its First or Last Quarter phase; also sometimes called the "half-moon", that it would be shining only half as bright as a full moon.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Even the half-moon is obscured behind heavy gray cloud.
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In one hypnotic turn, the performers hopped on skateboards and lazily circled the theater risers, becoming visible in half-moons as they rolled out in front of the audience and then disappearing again.
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The half-moons of supple dough encase toothsome cabbage and mushroom, cheese and potato, or meat fillings; order the combination plate to cover all four food groups.
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A waning half-moon shone on a star-sprinkled sky, the sea was calm, the breeze gentle, the temperature in the lower seventies.
HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
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The knife magnet has to be heavy-duty and has to be out of the reach of children, and on one part of it must hang a mezzaluna, the half-moon-shaped (hence the name) herb chopper (which I use for everything) that you cannot cut yourself with as you work, since both hands are safely wrapped around the handles.
Nigella Lawson's Cozy Kitchen
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In the light of the dimly shining half-moon, her eyes looked worried and afraid.
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At midnight, under the light of a bright half-moon, Indefatigable was sailing smoothly into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of France, on her way to Gibraltar.
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Trim ragged lawn edges with the aid of a half-moon edging iron.
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Will this colour and fabric show the half-moon marks I will inevitably sweat out; will this result in bizarre tan lines; have I depilated sufficiently to support this sort of hemline; will the embellishment on this top prove OTT when worn in combination with my metal-rim aviator Ray-Bans; and will this work as well without tights?" are just some of the difficulties the sun-dresser encounters.
What I bought this week: hot clothes for hot days
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Her eyes began to droop and dark half-moons hung underneath.
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It had been two days since the half-moon and Niroku had asked a question that had been bugging him.
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Half-mooner, look a group called More Light Presbyterians.
The Sally Kern Incident
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Four half-moons of magnification were ground into each lens.
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Detached works called ravelins or (from their appearance) demi-lunes (half-moons) often stood out in front of the curtain between the bastions, and sometimes extra works formed an extra outer skin of fortifications.
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In the small hours of the morning, he found himself on the roof, staring out at a half-moon and a scattering of stars.
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The half-moon gave him barely enough light to make it to Protheroe's door.
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P. falciparum, when it is in it's final stage (gametocyte), it has more of a sausage looking shape or half-moon shape.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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Similar pressures may be threatening the breeding colonies of red-footed booby of Half-Moon Caye, and of common noddy of Glover's Reef.
Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, Belize
