Sentence examples for crescent from inspiring English sources

The two-mile crescent, one of 44 beaches on the island, is one of the most famous in the Caribbean.

It's a minute's stroll away from a crescent of creamy white beach you're pretty much guaranteed to have all to yourself, and the famous Blue Lagoon and Frenchman's Cove (pictured) are a few more minutes' away.

Together with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and King Abdullah of Jordan, the Saudi monarch expressed alarm over the so-called emerging Shia crescent.

The Mecca Clock Royal Tower Hotel, with more than 800 rooms, occupies what will soon be the world's second-tallest building, a structure incorporating the world's biggest clock, with faces at least six times the size of Big Ben's, and capped by a spire topped with a golden crescent.

So it is all the more alarming that one of its great river basins, the Tigris-Euphrates which flows Tigris-Euphrates whichflowsle crescenthroughgave birtheto agriculture itself—is getting drier.

These are signs of growth, and also maturity, say analysts.In this section The leapfrog continent Uncowed Still slaving away Growing up The too fertile crescent A whiff from hell Reprints Related topics DubaiDubai long ago used up most of its oil reserves, so the government has for years tried to diversify the economy.

Islamic religious symbols include the crescent, or the hand of Fatima, or the double-bladed sword of Ali.

These flow from eastern Turkey to the Gulf and form part of the so-called "fertile crescent", the birthplace of agriculture.