How to Use moon shot in a Sentence

moon shot

noun
  • The Yankees still trailed by three after his ninth-inning moon shot.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Brito, who homered on Saturday as well, smashed a moon shot to left to lead off the fourth.
    — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Griffith described it as a moon shot—where the patient is the one taking the real risks.
    — Brandy Schillace, Wired, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Rollin added another moon shot off Raegan Breedlove in the sixth.
    — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The moon shot soared through the Busch Stadium air at 106 mph.
    — Maria Torres, kansascity, 21 May 2018
  • The bet that Meir and Elgrably appear to be making is certainly no moon shot.
    — Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The decision paid off, as Henderson hit a moon shot over the right-center field fence to tie the game at one apiece.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 16 Mar. 2026
  • In mid-August, the first signs of an economic proposal by the league were leaked out but portrayed as more of a moon shot.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The first three American astronauts in the moon shot program were killed within minutes.
    — Rachel Riederer, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The Texas law is fantastically reckless—not as much a legal moon shot as a volatile rocket poised to blow up—in more than one respect.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Mexico was leading 3-0 in the fifth inning when Kazuma Okamoto led off with moon shot to left field.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Unfortunately, not every Google moon shot leaves Earth orbit.
    — Ross Koningstein, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Nov. 2014
  • The tally included a 493-foot moon shot on Friday, the longest home run of his career and in the majors this season.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2023
  • The cancer moon shot includes university research projects and grants, with a long-term goal of improving the prevention and treatment of the disease.
    — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 July 2024
  • Then Gordon’s blast in the fourth, and Jorge Soler’s 441-foot solo moon shot in the fifth were the responses.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity, 3 May 2018
  • For millions of Americans struggling to find a basic job, the prospect of locating willing investors and deal lawyers seems a moon shot, and the big money will stay out of reach.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
  • Rodriguez said that restoring sight in James’ left eye through a whole eye transplant was a moon shot from the get-go but that performing the surgery provided other benefits, as well.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Gallo flied out in his first two at-bats, the first caught by Bregman in left field, and in his last as his moon shot landed in George Springer's glove at the base of the right-field wall.
    — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 29 Mar. 2018
  • When Joey Gallo gave the Rangers a 3-2 lead with a moon shot in the top of the 10th, the Padres faced one of the best closers in baseball thus far.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The 32-second dream-like sequence spotlights a number of the studio’s most popular and long-running franchises, before settling on its classic moon shot.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Stan and Paul’s friendship, which had brought both men to fairy-dust riches, was permanently, irrevocably ceased with the collapse of their audacious corporate moon shot.
    — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Stanton, who had gone three whole games without a home run, belted his 52nd of the season Saturday, a first-inning moon shot to left center off the Phillies’ Aaron Nola.
    — Clark Spencer, miamiherald, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The very term moon shot may not have originated with the Apollo missions, but in the Los Angeles Coliseum, in the 1950s.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 16 July 2019
  • Verily started as a moon shot in 2015 within Alphabet's innovation lab X, formerly known as Google X.
    — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025

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