How to Use sickle in a Sentence

sickle

noun

• Above his head flew the red hammer-and-sickle of the U.S.S.R.
  — Chet Barfield, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
• 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 red hammer-and-sickle flag was pulled down from the Kremlin for the last time.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2022
• 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 sickle and hammer are part of all the group’s messaging.
  — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 8 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The county jail, where my sickle-cell patient had been held, is one.
  — Ricardo Nuila, The New Yorker, 26 June 2020
• 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
• Four other bodies were found with sickles strewn across their throats.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 28 Oct. 2017
• Troodontids are bird-like predators that have sickle-like claws.
  — USA TODAY, 19 July 2019
• 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
• These new shears, shovels and sickles don’t just appeal for their lovely curves.
  — wsj.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Soon, Vorst was helping cut grass behind the building with a handheld sickle.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Amber, 20, has a dream of opening a clinic to help people with sickle cell anemia.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• These sickle cells die off sooner than healthy red blood cells, causing anemia.
  — Ted W. Love, STAT, 17 July 2021
• In a study by Bluebird Bio, a biotech company in Cambridge, Mass., four patients of nine in the study no longer had symptoms of sickle-cell disease.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 8 June 2019
• For Nazaneen, exposure to cold or a cut can trigger a sickle-cell crisis.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• 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
• In 13th-century China, a field worker was killed with a sickle — and all villagers’ sickles were alike.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2017
• The dancers circled a group of performers who held up yellow flowers to form the symbol of the Workers' Party of Korea -- a hammer, brush and sickle.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Apr. 2022
• The dancers circled a group of performers who held up yellow flowers to form the symbol of the Workers’ Party of Korea – a hammer, brush, and sickle.
  — Hyung-Jin Kim and Tong-Hyung Kim, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 9 May 2024