How to Use moonless in a Sentence

moonless

adjective

• Overhead, the late-summer sky was moonless and staggeringly clear.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• But best are moonless nights, when shimmering whorls of the Milky Way fill the night and desert creatures emerge to crawl and slither the dunes.
  — Anna Zacharias, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2026
• That same night, the Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak under a perfectly dark, moonless sky.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• The threshold of naked-eye visibility under a dark, moonless sky registers at around +6).
  — Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
• Then, just hours later, the Perseid meteor shower will peak beneath perfectly moonless skies.
  — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 17 July 2026
• On a moonless night, radiant stars blink in startling proximity to Chile’s Elqui Valley.
  — Emma Fritz, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
• On a moonless night, that Alpha team crept silently from the statue’s belly and wrenched open the gates of Troy, decisively ending the war in their favor.
  — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 15 July 2026
• Just hours later, the annual Perseid meteor shower will peak under dark, moonless skies, promising dozens of meteors per hour.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
• This will result in moonless nights on either side of May 16, ideal for everything from backyard binocular sessions to a full-on dark sky getaway.
  — Michael D'estries, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2026
• Spend time gradually building up your knowledge and experience, taking advantage of any clear nights — preferably the dark, moonless nights between the last quarter moon and the new moon.
  — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2025
• And sometimes, on moonless nights when the sky is especially dark and the air is crystal clear — as is often the case on a cold winter night — the Milky Way can be admired in all its glory.
  — John Meyer, Denver Post, 28 Nov. 2025
• Key Facts Under a moonless dark sky away from light pollution, the Perseids can produce up to 75 meteors per hour on the peak night — more than one meteor per minute.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• The moonless nights of mid-May are a fantastic time to spot the glowing band of the Milky Way arching across the spring sky, before the encroaching twilight of the summer months shortens the viewing window.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 8 May 2026
• From total solar and lunar eclipses and brilliant planetary conjunctions to iconic meteor showers peaking under moonless night skies and a festive supermoon, there's something for everyone to enjoy.
  — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2026
• The Orionid meteor shower peak begins tonight, welcoming a spectacular natural light show that could see a flurry of shooting stars spawned by Halley's Comet brighten the dark, moonless sky.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2025
• Meanwhile, the very early hours of July 7 and 8 will see a close conjunction of a last quarter moon and Saturn in the east, kicking off relatively moonless conditions for the following 10 nights or so.
  — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 3 July 2026
• The 84%-lit waning gibbous moon, which lessened the Perseids’ impact on Monday night, will have reduced in brightness by the weekend and will rise around midnight, creating a window of moonless darkness beforehand.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• The Orionid meteor shower will unfold against a pristinely dark, moonless sky — unlike the Perseids, whose August peak was somewhat ruined by the light cast by a waning gibbous moon that hid dimmer members of the shower from view.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2025
• On a moonless night in January, a gargantuan turtle was digging a nest high up on a soft sand beach at Galathea Bay on the Great Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean.
  — M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025