gibbous in a sentence

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1. Simple neutral density filters are also common as they can cut down the amount of light reaching the eye by 60 95 %, something that is helpful especially when observing a full or gibbous moon so the surface does not appear as washed out.
2. If the half-ellipse is convex with respect to the half-circle, then the shape will be gibbous ( bulging outwards ) whereas if the half-ellipse is concave with respect to the half-circle, then the shape will be a crescent.
3. There were ( and still are ) easy explanations for most sightings : Jupiter, Mars and Venus, comets, meteors, even the moon in its red-hued gibbous phase, space debris, experimental aircraft, model planes, fireworks, research balloons, kites.
4. Apophysis nearly flat to slightly raised, transversely keeled, more or less gibbous on the proximal scales, more so on one side of the cone, rhombic, upper margin acute or obtuse-rounded, abaxial surface striate or smooth, ( lustrous ) ochraceous or yellow-brown.
5. For example, if you are seeing a waning gibbous moon in the morning sky, it is also a waning gibbous for those on the other side of the earth, they just won't be able to see it for a few more hours until it rises above their horizon.
6. For example, if you are seeing a waning gibbous moon in the morning sky, it is also a waning gibbous for those on the other side of the earth, they just won't be able to see it for a few more hours until it rises above their horizon.
7. Whilst promoting his 2009 solo album " Waxing Gibbous ", Middleton noted that he would be refraining from performing and recording under his own name in the future, stating " I'm starting to feel like I've done as much as I can with this creative voice . ".
8. (Original description ) The appearance of the shell recalls " Pyrgospira ostrearum " ( Stearns, 1872 ), but it is white, more acutely pointed, smaller, with a more gibbous varix in the adult, an umbilical chink on the lip is thin, not lirate, and strongly arched.
9. But in 1610 Galileo's novel telescopic confirmation that Venus has a full set of phases like the Moon, published in his 1613 " Letters on Sunspots ", refuted the Ptolemaic geocentric model, which implied they are only crescents in conjunction, just as in opposition, whereas they are gibbous or full in conjunction.
10. The temptation is to read this book for its rich and graceful writing alone, as in this passage about orchids : " Petals of multicolored lacquer, quartz-powdered, fantastic, and sneering necks of Japanese dragons, petals that are gibbous, horned, curved, iridescent on the inside like the open thoraxes of slaughtered animals.