The white crescent figure on the lower part of a person’s fingernails is sometimes a small curved symbol showing a medical problem.

Character was added to the house when the owners cut a crescent window creating a slight arch above the doorway.

“Why does the desert,” the child pointed to the crescent figures in the sand, “have those curved dunes in them?”

While looking into the night sky, the children noticed the crescent moon but only for an instant since it was just a sliver in the sky.

Many outhouses have a crescent shape carved into the door so that illiterate men would know that the symbol stood for a moon representing men.