How to Use moon shot in a Sentence

moon shot

noun

• The moon shot soared through the Busch Stadium air at 106 mph.
  — Maria Torres, kansascity, 21 May 2018
• When Joey Gallo gave the Rangers a 3-2 lead with a moon shot in the top of the 10th, the Padres faced one of the best closers in baseball thus far.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2020
• Brito, who homered on Saturday as well, smashed a moon shot to left to lead off the fourth.
  — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 21 Feb. 2021
• Griffith described it as a moon shot—where the patient is the one taking the real risks.
  — Brandy Schillace, Wired, 27 Jan. 2022
• Then Gordon’s blast in the fourth, and Jorge Soler’s 441-foot solo moon shot in the fifth were the responses.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity, 3 May 2018
• Rollin added another moon shot off Raegan Breedlove in the sixth.
  — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2022
• The Yankees still trailed by three after his ninth-inning moon shot.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 21 Sep. 2022
• The bet that Meir and Elgrably appear to be making is certainly no moon shot.
  — Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• In mid-August, the first signs of an economic proposal by the league were leaked out but portrayed as more of a moon shot.
  — Maury Brown, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• Gallo flied out in his first two at-bats, the first caught by Bregman in left field, and in his last as his moon shot landed in George Springer's glove at the base of the right-field wall.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 29 Mar. 2018
• Mexico was leading 3-0 in the fifth inning when Kazuma Okamoto led off with moon shot to left field.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
• But his mission has morphed into the greatest moon shot of all: to bring bike racing to the American masses.
  — Outside Online, 12 Apr. 2021
• The first three American astronauts in the moon shot program were killed within minutes.
  — Rachel Riederer, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• The Texas law is fantastically reckless—not as much a legal moon shot as a volatile rocket poised to blow up—in more than one respect.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
• The very term moon shot may not have originated with the Apollo missions, but in the Los Angeles Coliseum, in the 1950s.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 16 July 2019
• For millions of Americans struggling to find a basic job, the prospect of locating willing investors and deal lawyers seems a moon shot, and the big money will stay out of reach.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
• And here’s Prince William talking about the Kennedy moon shot.
  — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 31 May 2026
• The decision paid off, as Henderson hit a moon shot over the right-center field fence to tie the game at one apiece.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 16 Mar. 2026
• Judge did far more than tie a Game 3 that the Blue Jays were never winning after that moon shot.
  — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
• Even a slight shake from pressing the shutter can blur your moon shot, especially with slower shutter speeds in low light.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025