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Definition of gibbous moon in English: gibbous moonnoun The phase of the moon in which its illuminated part is greater than a semicircle and less than a circle. a gibbous moon hung in the pre-dawn sky Example sentencesExamples - The open doors to the garden let in the hard white light of the gibbous moon, and the heady smell of night-blooming flowers.
- The desert beyond is dimly visible in the light of the gibbous moon.
- The gibbous moon rides low across the southern sky these evenings, and for the next few days it is crossing the constellation of Scorpius.
- A wan and gibbous moon appeared briefly before it followed the sun.
- She set off through the dark, silent woods, as the gibbous moon surfaced from its sea of clouds.
- The treetops were bathed in moonlight from the gibbous moon but beneath their boughs the shadows held sway.
- The waning gibbous moon was obscured by thick clouds so I had trouble making out the road in front of me.
- The cloudiness will decrease and the waning gibbous moon will shine later tonight.
- The rising gibbous moon was ghostly from New Jersey, but by the Manhattan evening it was sharp and bright.
- Tonight, the bright crater Aristarchus is visible on the gibbous Moon.
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