Example Sentences

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Mooning about like a bitter rabbit was little Alien Harry Bridges, whose services to C. I. O. on the West Coast may be terminated by deportation proceedings next week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mooning about death allows the author to pseudo-philosophize world-wearily on man's transitory state, enhances the characters' sense of the wonder of life, and gives a love affair the tang of teary urgency.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mooning over your wonderful likeness to the lovely young sister they—never had!

From The White Linen Nurse by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

"Mooning, as usual," said a hostile voice behind him.

From A Perilous Secret by Reade, Charles

Mooning, dreaming, singing, she had picked a bunch of these and was mechanically plucking their snow-white petals one by one.

From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness