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moonlit

[moon-lit] / ˈmunˌlɪt /




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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

The silhouette of a child appeared on the moonlit wall.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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