Definition of MOONSCAPE

Examples of moonscape in a Sentence

The valley is a desolate moonscape.

Recent Examples on the Web The sky in those photos is velvety black and contrasts beautifully with the silvery-gray moonscape. — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, "Tom Gauld’s “Rooftop Astronomy”," 2 Dec. 2019 Courtesy of the easterly trade winds, the beach is catnip for kiteboarders and stand-up-paddle boarders’ and well worth a return visit at night when the moonscape reflected on the still water is mystical. — Melanie Refffes, USA TODAY, "Shh! These are the best secret beaches in the Caribbean," 25 Nov. 2019 Beyond the parking lot, a red, barren moonscape spreads out in three directions, and in the distance dozens of enormous trucks and earthmovers rumble about. — Paul Kvinta, Outside Online, "I Bought an Elephant to Find Out How to Save Them," 12 Nov. 2019 As a yellow haze curtained the barns and pumpkin farms of Sonoma County on Monday, firefighters sat through briefings before trudging back into a moonscape of charred homes and smoking roads. — Tim Arango, New York Times, "With California Ablaze, Firefighters Strain to Keep Up," 28 Oct. 2019 At last, on the third morning of the 500-mile trek, the hearse turned alone onto an unpaved desert highway toward the eerie shores of Lake Mungo, which despite its name has been a dry moonscape for the past 16,000 years. — David Maurice Smith, Smithsonian, "A 42,000-Year-Old Man Finally Goes Home," 23 Aug. 2019 Thousands of pumpjacks bucked like broncos on miles and miles of moonscape. — Los Angeles Times, "Column: In tiny Oildale, the local barber, a Trump fan, has had it with California," 26 July 2019 Individual homes left standing amid the apocalyptic moonscape here have proved tough to sell, Voigt said. — Washington Post, "Driven from Paradise by ﬁre, kept out by gentriﬁcation?," 20 June 2019 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, "In Germany, industrial sites are now artful enclaves," 10 May 2019

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“Moonscape.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moonscape. Accessed 12 December 2019.