Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for moon. Search instead for moonq.
Definitions

moon

[moon] / mun /




Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

To unleash our energy, to rebuild our factories, to return our astronauts to the moon and launch a new age of exploration in space.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

“I don’t know about the moon, you know?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Jack explained that the purpose of this is to simulate how real rovers carry out these kind of tasks on the moon.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

For the Europa flybys, discussions about how the instruments will operate began about 10 years ago and will continue until Juice finally passes the moon in the early 2030s.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

To quicken the egg, take it outside at midnight on the night of the next full moon.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

It will make 35 flybys of the three large moons while orbiting Jupiter, before changing orbits to Ganymede.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

It will make detailed observations of gas giant Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons - Ganymede, Callisto and Europa.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

Ariel is the brightest of Uranus' moons and the second closest to the planet.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

As the young Solar System began assembling solid objects such as planets, moons, and protoplanets, two major types of material were available.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

To him the most feared soldier ever created was the pilot who came at night, hiding from the cast-eyed light of half moons, coming winged and unannounced out of the black, out of the void.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

While accepting the prize, Madonna reminisced about how her manager scolded her backstage at the very first MTV awards show, where she briefly mooned the audience in a performance fumble.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

She and Tom Arnold had mooned the crowd at a World Series game to show off their matching tattoos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2018

That idea was encapsulated by the verbal exchange as Peggy mooned over those roses.

From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2014

You wouldn't even be getting this kind of coverage if Silvio Berlusconi mooned Barack Obama in front of the UN.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2013

Eddie mooned on down to La Ida and talked to his friend the bartender.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

Bogotá’s unorthodox mayor, Antanas Mockus—who rose to fame after mooning student protesters and deployed mimes to control traffic—viewed the activity as a gambit “to achieve self-regulation in the behavior among citizens.”

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2024

Would there be a ShyBelligerent if he still were mooning around Compton?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024

Anduaga’s soigné style, and vibrant yet plangent timbre, made him an uncommonly sensitive Nemorino — more of a melancholy-prone Werther scribbling poeticisms in a notebook than a sunny country bumpkin mooning over his beloved.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

Now it’s possible to find statues of gnomes mooning, sitting on the toilet and vomiting rainbows.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023

Then she got herself a cup and sat down beside him, her beautiful eyes mooning with pity.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson




Vocabulary lists containing moon


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 14,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training