How to Use sickle in a Sentence

sickle

noun

• Simply grab the grass with one hand and hold the sickle in the other to slice through.
  — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• Stars push through dense black one by one, and then comes the thinnest sickle moon.
  — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2015
• The sickle and hammer are part of all the group’s messaging.
  — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 8 Mar. 2018
• The knife is curved, an unusual find for the area and the time, looking more like a sickle.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019
• The red hammer-and-sickle flag was pulled down from the Kremlin for the last time.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2022
• Old-timers used to simply pull plants out by the roots and cut grasses by sickle and scythe.
  — Cain Burdeau, Fox News, 19 June 2018
• Four other bodies were found with sickles strewn across their throats.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 28 Oct. 2017
• The county jail, where my sickle-cell patient had been held, is one.
  — Ricardo Nuila, The New Yorker, 26 June 2020
• Above his head flew the red hammer-and-sickle of the U.S.S.R.
  — Chet Barfield, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
• These new shears, shovels and sickles don’t just appeal for their lovely curves.
  — wsj.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• Those with the disease may suffer severe pain caused when sickle cells get stuck in small blood vessels and block the flow of blood and oxygen to organs in the body.
  — Mary Lynn Smith, Star Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
• Troodontids are bird-like predators that have sickle-like claws.
  — USA TODAY, 19 July 2019
• These sickle cells die off sooner than healthy red blood cells, causing anemia.
  — Ted W. Love, STAT, 17 July 2021
• Soon, Vorst was helping cut grass behind the building with a handheld sickle.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• The curved blade of the bronze knife, with structural reinforcement on the back side, looks as if someone recycled a sickle to make it.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2019
• Blood cells from several species of deer also sickle, but scientists don’t know what prompts the change.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 18 Dec. 2017
• Bluebird approached her to help design its sickle-cell trial.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2022
• These are often descended from field tools, such as sickles and machete-like tools that were designed to do work on farms and in forests.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 27 Jan. 2020
• In the disease state, the blood cells are sickle-shaped instead of round, leading to stabs of pain and eventual organ damage.
  — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2016
• On the way out of town, a monument with a Cyrillic inscription and a star, hammer, and sickle caught my eye.
  — Sigrid MacRae, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• Zaffina hurled something the officer thought was an axe or sickle.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
• For a child to be born with the condition, both parents must carry a sickle-cell gene, which is passed from one generation to the next.
  — Aisha Salaudeen, CNN, 10 July 2019
• Their larvae look like tiny alligators with sickle-shaped jaws.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2020
• But this carbon steel Japanese weeding sickle makes this chore a lot more manageable with a sharp edge that will cut through the deepest weeds.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 26 Oct. 2022
• Some weed and prune the trees barefoot, while teen boys may harvest bunches large enough to crush them, slicing the fruit from lofty branches with sickle blades attached to long poles.
  — oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2020
• Aliyana has sickle beta plus thalassemia, a form that is often considered milder.
  — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 17 May 2018
• Williams said, to her knowledge, no one in the family had ever been told that Phaneese had sickle cell trait.
  — Deanna Boyd, star-telegram, 31 May 2017
• The group of tourists, dressed in replica Red Army costumes, stood in front of a red hammer-and-sickle billboard.
  — New York Times, 25 June 2021
• The event is in honor of sisters Kami and Kyra Crawford who have sickle-cell anemia.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Mar. 2021
• For Nazaneen, exposure to cold or a cut can trigger a sickle-cell crisis.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 14 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024