moonlit
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of moonlit
Example Sentences
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Every familiar object — the chair, the laundry basket, the glass of water beside the bed — seemed to acquire a slightly accusatory moonlit outline.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Fashionable portraits and moonlit landscapes back home, then success with candlelit interiors and portraits of Wright’s friends in the Lunar Society of Enlightenment scientists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
Grande first delivered a moonlit rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” which Judy Garland famously sang as Dorothy in the movie “The Wizard of Oz.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2025
A car crashes at a dangerous bend on a clifftop road in Anglesey, North Wales, on a moonlit night in January 1909.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2024
Finally, there was a stand of woods that looked like a solid wall of darkness after the moonlit fields.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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