moonlighter

Example Sentences

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Doing films as a kind of part-time moonlighter, she has become a movie star in spite of herself.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even though he is president of the nation's largest bank holding corporation and earns $100,000 a year, Maurice Stans is a moonlighter.

From Time Magazine Archive

I remember the occasion of the election of another dispensary doctor, when I was curtly told that only a moonlighter could hope to be appointed.

From The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.

The words alone might have had little effect on the old moonlighter.

From The Green Flag by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

"A moonlighter is one who shoots an oil well regardless of patent rights or those owning them, save when, by chance, he finds himself gathered in by the strong arm of the law."

From Ralph Gurney's Oil Speculation by Otis, James