Example Sentences

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One night, the two went to a party, and by the end, the way Mr. Ligon remembers it, Mr. Waterston was mooning over a young lady.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2013

He knew the risks—a beating, dismissal, jail—but he gave in to his romantic side and kissed the man he had been told was mooning over him.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

Manning maintained that he was mooning another student, and in a book he later dismissed the incident as “crude maybe, but harmless.”

From Washington Post

Last week, via the voices of Frank Sinatra and the Mills Brothers, this musical tickler was mooning out of every radio and juke box in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Piggy was mooning about, aimlessly picking up things and discarding them.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding