moonlit
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of moonlit
Example Sentences
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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
He clearly relishes soft playing, with sensitive effects of distant bells and moonlit drizzles in Messiaen’s “La Colombe” and “Le Nombre Léger,” and a murmured sotto voce in Chopin’s Op.
From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2024
There, in the moonlit shadow of that mighty steel sculpture, I declared my love and loss and said goodbye.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2024
I wonder if she’ll come for me some moonlit night a long, long time from now.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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