How to Use moonscape in a Sentence

moonscape

noun
  • The valley is a desolate moonscape.
  • The crew hiked through the ashen moonscape that used to be their homes.
    — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Side gusts took the dogs off the road into a moonscape of drifts.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Still, the moonscape in front of me was unsettling.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Thousands of pumpjacks bucked like broncos on miles and miles of moonscape.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
  • Stargaze from moonscape deserts, or absorb high-design in a rising city.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2023
  • But its German- and Czech-style beers would sparkle even in a dreary moonscape.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Too hot, and the fire can turn large areas into a moonscape barren of the seeds needed for new growth.
    — NBC News, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Cars were flattened and trees burned out in moonscapes that had been residential streets.
    — TIME, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The samples on display, which were air-dried, look like clumps of moonscape or a small asteroid.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
  • But those expecting a bleak moonscape, barren and lifeless, won’t find it here.
    — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Winding toward the forest through the moonscape of what used to be people’s homes, there are few signs of life.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • The camp looked like a moonscape with tents pitched between rocky ravines and glacier shale that can be slippery and dangerous.
    — Michael Clinton, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
  • Along a scenic strip known as Lovers’ Park, the floor of the reservoir has become a vast moonscape.
    — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The winds ripping across that frozen moonscape were almost unbearable.
    — Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Once a verdant collection of canyons, hillsides and farms, the land is now a barren moonscape.
    — Washington Post, 6 June 2018
  • The result wasn't just a moonscape, but a housing crisis on top of an already-tight rental market.
    — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • The weather in Phoenix was sunny, warm, and dry, the desert a moonscape, and the sprawl impressive.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Parts of Gaza today, Martha, look like a moonscape, dozens of buildings flattened.
    — ABC News, 16 May 2021
  • What once was a lush forest is now a moonscape in recovery, where tiny conifers and scrubby brush have since emerged from the debris.
    — oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The landscape had changed from a stark moonscape to humid deciduous brush to bleached rocks and semi-arid plants.
    — Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The front line, on the city’s outskirts, looks like a muddy moonscape or a scene from World War I.
    — Natalia Yermak, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Yet life was quick to return to the moonscape left by the eruption, Franklin and other scientists learned.
    — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The front line, on the city’s outskirts, looks like a muddy moonscape, or a scene from World War I.
    — Natalia Yermak Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The few tree lines and structures that would offer cover have been obliterated by shelling, leaving a moonscape.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The barren moonscape of the mine and the steel and cement structures from the coal plant are in stark contrast to the forest cover beyond.
    — Martin Kirchner, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
  • The sky in those photos is velvety black and contrasts beautifully with the silvery-gray moonscape.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • On the horizon the parched moonscape met a wall of black smoke from the oil wells the Islamic State has set ablaze as a cover from airstrikes.
    — Tim Arango, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2016
  • And, almost certainly, the idyllic reflection has been baked to a ghastly moonscape.
    — Dennis Wagner, azcentral, 5 May 2018
  • What remained looked like the hillsides of Vietnam after a napalm strike, ghostly gray moonscapes devoid of life.
    — TIME.com, 4 Oct. 2017

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