moon
Example Sentences
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As it only happens every few years it is where the expression 'once in a blue moon' comes from.
From BBC
There were richly carved boxes which opened only under a full moon, and teapots that never grew cold, made from fire clay forged in the eastern islands.
From Literature
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The moon lights a layer of fog on the lake.
From Literature
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“That’s Ms. Pearl. If there’s a way to get to the moon by bus, that woman will know it.”
From Literature
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It looks kind of like a flaky roll, in the shape of a crescent moon.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.