How to Use the Red Crescent in a Sentence

the Red Crescent

noun

• The level of risk harks back to two decades ago to the wave of violence known as the second intifada, when 12 medics were killed, according to the Red Crescent.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• The death toll spiked from 500 reported earlier on Sunday by the Red Crescent.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2023
• Early in the war, the regime realized that the scale of this effort would overwhelm the Red Crescent’s capabilities.
  — Annie Sparrow, Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2018
• Videos shared by the Red Crescent and verified by the video-analysis group Storyful showed a large cloud of smoke from an apparent strike near the same hospital.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
• The injuries followed a siege that the Israeli military has laid on the Red Crescent's facilities for 12 days, the organization said.
  — TIME, 3 Feb. 2024
• After these changes, the Red Crescent’s new unofficial policy was to deliver aid according to partisan criteria.
  — Annie Sparrow, Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2018

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024