the moon

noun

variants or the Moon

: the large round object that circles the Earth and that shines at night by reflecting light from the sun

Examples of the moon in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

No bigger than a microwave oven, Idefix will plop onto Phobos by itself, bouncing for several minutes before coming to a halt in the moon's extraordinarily low gravity. — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026

Those demonstrations will help inform NASA's determination about which lander the agency will choose to carry astronauts to the moon's surface on Artemis IV, targeted for early 2028. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Man on the moon In late 1969, Bowie and then girlfriend Angie Barnett moved into the ground floor of Haddon Hall, a historic home on South London’s 42 Southend Road. — Eleni N. Gage, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026

Musk has said SpaceX’s future success hinges on its Starship rocket, slated to carry astronauts to the moon and launch hundreds of thousands of communications satellites and orbiting data centers to power its AI ambitions. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for the moon

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