How to Use moonlit in a Sentence

moonlit

adjective
  • See the dream sail in on moonlit waves and feel the swell of its prow in your blood.
    — Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
  • The memory of that moonlit moment is worth far more than a wolf hide to me.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2021
  • And the people of the world will party under the moonlit blooms again.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2020
  • For two nights only, the moonlit paths of the park will be riddled with ghosts and goblins.
    — Geoff Bruce, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2017
  • His breath, hissing out into the moonlit air, would have fogged the lenses.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 26 June 2019
  • On a crisp, moonlit night, the snipes sliced through the mountain air with their winnowing call.
    — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 July 2017
  • Feeling inspired to take a more in-depth moonlit tour of our rocky companion?
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Feeling inspired to take a more in-depth moonlit tour of our rocky companion?
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • So all that magic, that moonlit parking lot romance, was a soundstage at noon.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Fancy taking a more in-depth moonlit tour of our rocky companion?
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Late into the night, Bailey steers the boat through hanging sheets of moonlit mist.
    — Julia Rosen, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Also, check out the moonlit pumpkin patch for your seasonal gourd needs.
    — oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Lush landscaped gardens, moonlit kayak tours, and live music spilling out into the streets?
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 July 2023
  • Lush landscaped gardens, moonlit kayak tours, and live music spilling out into the streets?
    — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2024
  • The twinkling grid of lights stirs the same primordial awe that comes from watching a starry sky or a moonlit sea.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • Artist Erin Schroeder will show attendees how to paint two palm trees over a moonlit beach.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Artist Erin Schroeder will show attendees how to paint two palm trees over a moonlit beach.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In the moonlit garden, Ivan and his beloved join lips, while her companions all gaze in wonder.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • Nearby Signal Hill takes you even higher above the moonlit desert.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 1 Oct. 2025
  • On day two of this year’s seven-day event, for example, attendees hit the streets in bald cuts, red lips, and moonlit skin.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Your ensemble should embody moonlit elegance and cozy glamour, with pops of pale blue and pearls.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The agents cut their engines and killed the lights, bobbing in silence in the moonlit waves of the vast Pacific.
    — David Culver, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Our friends own this cool restaurant, with dishes influenced by their travels around the world, live jazz and a moonlit patio.
    — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Whether that reveals the golden haze of dawn or a moonlit night still holding on, the moment is one that’s always filled with magic.
    — Monisha Rajesh, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2025
  • In May, a wealthy socialite and a senior police official were on a moonlit pier in paradise.
    — CBS News, 2 Oct. 2021
  • With its cozy imagery, from moonlit pumpkin patches to trick-or-treating in classic ghost costumes, this film has stood the test of time for six decades.
    — Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Help, of course, isn’t coming—not over the Indian Ocean, not in the nursing home, not on the tramps’ moonlit road.
    — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025
  • On a clear moonlit night, on a cruise ship bound for New York, a man topples over the upper-deck railing and plunges into the sea.
    — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Inside was a pop-up nightclub overlooking a moonlit Atlantic Ocean.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Spain pulses with fiery rhythm—where flamenco flares in moonlit plazas and ancient Roman aqueducts stride across golden fields.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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