moonlit
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of moonlit
Example Sentences
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With eyes gently shut, she began to romance the audience with “Me Empiezo a Enamorar,” a sweetly sung, whimsical tune about falling in love: first with someone’s smile, then with their moonlit eyes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 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
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
Dear Esther, released in 2012, saw players exploring a moonlit Hebridean island, tromping through purple heather.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024
Together, he and Baba sang their way across the moonlit waterway.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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