How to Use lunar in a Sentence

lunar

adjective
  • What phase of the lunar cycle is the moon in now?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • What phase of the lunar cycle is the moon in now?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • What phase of the lunar cycle is the moon in now?
    — Mariyam Muhammad, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
  • And what will be the language of cis-lunar space?
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Look away from the lunar face or find an object to shield it from view.
    — Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman, 5 June 2026
  • This Snow Moon will shed lunar light on the truth.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The sun and moon are hidden from sight in lunar and solar eclipses.
    — Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2024
  • There’s a reason why countries want to reach key lunar sites first.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
  • This is the third time the lunar rocket's launch has been postponed.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The two would rendezvous and dock in lunar orbit.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2026
  • That mission, too, did not land on the lunar surface.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
  • The lunar dust is the first sample from the mission that could be legally sold.
    — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Around midnight the edges of the lunar surface can still take on a pinkish glow.
    — Dean Regas, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Dec. 2025
  • As the world lines up for a stake in lunar resources, the question remains.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike Earth dust, lunar dust clings and is hard to brush off surfaces.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 3 Mar. 2023
  • So, one of the first things is trying to build a self-sustainable lunar base.
    — Bret Baier, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • So look out for the next lunar cycle, or catch Kwenders on tour next year.
    — New York Times, 5 May 2022
  • The next mission was planned to take humans to the lunar surface.
    — Brendan Byrne, NPR, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Feeling inspired to capture your own shots of the lunar disk?
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • This lunar event will be the second of three back-to-back supermoons this year.
    — Gina Park, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The third event explains how the lunar breccia reached Earth.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 June 2026
  • Starship was always a poor choice as a lunar lander.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The first lunar landing with a crew under Artemis is at least a few years away.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
  • If all goes well, tests on the lunar surface could happen within the next few years.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But lunar water has little use on Earth.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
  • There will be two solar eclipses and two lunar eclipses in 2023.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Feb. 2023
  • That evening, lunar mountains will be visible as the sun lights them from the right.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 22 May 2026
  • On the night of the full moon and with a clear sky, from the mist of the falls, a lunar rainbow will appear.
    — Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2023
  • While the lunar footprint showed tread, the astronaut's boot had a smooth sole.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The goal this time is a moon base near the lunar south pole, staffed by astronauts as well as robots.
    — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 23 May 2026

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