Example Sentences
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Ask yourself why so many predatory animals can see perfectly on a moonless night.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 2026
On a moonless night in the Kenyan lakeside town of Naivasha, Anne sits inside a makeshift, two-room house, exhausted after a gruelling shift picking and sorting roses.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2024
When the solar system was young, the infant Earth was moonless, a solitary planet looping around the primordial sun.
From National Geographic • Oct. 23, 2023
“Horrible,” said the Mayan Queen’s captain, Richard Kirkby, who described the sea as “pitch black” on that nearly moonless night.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023
Always he watched ahead, though his eyes in the moonless night could see no more than the painted eyes aside the boat’s blind prow.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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