How to Use moonshine in a Sentence

moonshine

noun
  • Everything they said was just a load of moonshine.
  • My life there was about moonshine and real stars sparkling on you.
    — Wallace Baine, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2018
  • So pop the cork on a fresh jug of moonshine and let’s get started.
    — Pstatz, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2010
  • And, yes, adult guests can sip on homemade moonshine made with corn mash.
    — Jay Jones, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Tim invents a low-cost way to make his first single-malt moonshine.
    — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2020
  • There's a mash box underneath the porch where the moonshine aged.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • There's a mash box underneath the porch where the moonshine aged.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 19 May 2017
  • His nickname went back to high school, drinking moonshine from old oil cans.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The best way to describe it is as the Irish version of moonshine.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • Stan and Ollie go to the mountains and find a well full of moonshine.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Go moonshine and wine sampling at the many stops along the Gatlinburg strip.
    — Andrea Reeves, The Enquirer, 1 June 2022
  • Go moonshine and wine sampling at the many stops along the Gatlinburg strip.
    — Andrea Reeves, The Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2022
  • He was sentenced to two years in prison on moonshine and bootlegging charges.
    — Matt Crossman, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Their drink theme is moonshine and the decor is oversize kitschy art of famous people.
    — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 11 July 2019
  • My house is a red-cedar cabin on the land where my grandfather used to make moonshine.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 3 July 2018
  • Taylor wrote the tune about southern sunshine, moonshine and old friends.
    — Janelle Davis, CNN, 1 Jan. 2022
  • To that end, its house spirit is moonshine, and its owner hopes to cash in on the farm’s gangster lore.
    — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The modern world is awash in Capones, but the most brazen don’t run brothels, guns or moonshine.
    — Jay Newman, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • His father was a church deacon who also ran a nightclub and sold moonshine.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Wash it all down with a swig of local moonshine made from Svanetian alpine honey.
    — Melanie Hamilton, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Take a tour, have a taste, listen to live music, and maybe purchase a bottle of moonshine of your own.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The Shinery wanted to serve moonshine flights, made up of five three-quarter-ounce pours.
    — Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Aside from beer, a bottle of lao-Lao, a moonshine made from fermented rice, was passed around.
    — David Amsden, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2018
  • Heli back to the highlands for golf, clay shooting and glasses of moonshine on the treehouse deck.
    — Star-Telegram, star-telegram.com, 5 July 2017
  • The moonshine-like drink is made with grain and water from the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 10 May 2021
  • The animals were red-eyed — high on a concoction of weed, moonshine and God knows what else.
    — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • In the middle of the bridge, Kelly asked Swanson to stop and join them in a drink of moonshine rum.
    — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2020
  • That is, until Tucker aims it at the man’s head and calmly splits for the woods with both moonshine and pistol.
    — New York Times, 23 May 2018
  • Or the time in a moonshine case where Cook was cross-examining the local sheriff.
    — Bill Rankin, ajc, 21 Feb. 2021
  • In the woods next to a gleaming lake, several men secretly drink moonshine, cook fish and sing songs by a fire in the waning light.
    — Kristin M. Jones, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023

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