How to Use moon around/about in a Sentence

moon around/about

phrasal verb
  • Bruce and Patti were just over the moon about the movie.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Love you to the moon around the sun through the galaxies and back again.
    Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
  • China also aims to land its first crew on the moon around the end of the decade.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The orbits of planets or say, the moon around the Earth, are not a circle.
    Rick Green, courant.com, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Our team is over the moon about bringing the ‘Scott Pilgrim’ world to life.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Our tasters were over the moon about the intense punch that each chocolate chip packed.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2024
  • While Slaton has been over the moon about her love life, her health is in trouble.
    Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2023
  • And while some people were over the moon about the Caidan (or Arrie?) reunion, others seemed a bit on the fence.
    Sarah Felbin, Women's Health, 1 June 2023
  • People will have the best view of the partial lunar eclipse on Tuesday just after the peak of the full moon around 10:44 p.m. ET.
    Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Look west, first on Saturday, Oct. 5 to see a 6%-lit crescent moon about three degrees below and to the left of Venus.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Matty Healy’s mother is over the moon about the British rocker’s engagement.
    Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
  • This test flight is NASA's first step toward returning astronauts to the moon around 2025.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Because finding the signal of a planet is hard, but finding the signal of a moon around the planet signal that’s so hard to find is so much worse.
    Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Jackson and Palmer are over the moon about their new baby; ultimately, that’s all that matters.
    Essence, 14 Dec. 2022
  • To create his images, Fridge used a desktop lamp for the sun, an opaque disc for the moon, and a little motor pulling the disc on a string for the gravitational pull that steers the moon around the sun.
    Elissaveta M. Brandon, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
  • For convenience, there are two side pockets, thoughtful details that Amazon shoppers were over the moon about.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2024
  • The full moon around this time often rises around sunset, giving farmers more time to gather their crops, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.
    John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Last year, India landed its first spacecraft, the Chandrayaan-3, on the moon around the same time Russia’s first lunar mission in decades ended in failure when its Luna 25 probe crashed into the lunar surface.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
  • Europa, another icy moon around Jupiter, has a briny ocean that occasionally spews into space too.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The choreographer told one reporter last week that the 12-time Grammy winner was over the moon about the opportunity to perform such a sensual number.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2023
  • After that, the plan is for an SLS rocket to go to the moon about once a year, allowing astronauts to assemble an orbital space station and then, by the early 2030s, a surface habitat in which astronauts can live for a week at a time.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 18 Dec. 2022
  • What’s more, the authors say that the data obtained from the Hubble telescope, which is primarily where the claim for the moon around Kepler-1625b comes from, can’t be properly detrended and thus shouldn’t be relied on for exomoon searches.
    Ivan Paul, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2023
  • With the moon around 27 percent full, viewing opportunities could be favorable.
    Michael Roston, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025

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