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

Rather than a watery grave, however, a mysterious moonlit desert is where she’s adrift, a row of spiky cactuses behind her appearing to pierce her body.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2024

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

It was the same snarling roar he had heard that moonlit night when they first met Aravis and Hwin.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis