moonlight

Example Sentences

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The audience rehashed its hunches, they circled potential suspects, they stared at a static image of a horrific crime scene, awash in twinkling moonlight.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026

In an alley behind Tony’s Restaurant, two dogs share a heaping plate of spaghetti and meatballs under the moonlight.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026

Doctors can now moonlight as data-labelers, earning $170 an hour and working a minimum of 20 hours a week in a six-week contract.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Then she took out lanterns for us to pose with in the moonlight.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025

He wished “to be shut out from the big world, gazing at your dark eyes …” Writing a letter in the midnight moonlight, she sent him “ten thousand kisses.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock