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
Grande first delivered a moonlit rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” which Judy Garland famously sang as Dorothy in the movie “The Wizard of Oz.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2025
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
The cover illustrates the field guns embedded in the mountain with a moonlit ocean and a couple of fighter planes buzzing the area.
From Washington Times • Nov. 23, 2023
Harry could smell salt and hear rushing waves; a light, chilly breeze ruffled his hair as he looked out at moonlit sea and star-strewn sky.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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