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Recent Examples of moonless
By definition, all solar eclipses occur at the new moon, which means dark, moonless evening skies for a week before and a night after.
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Jamie Carter, Space.com, 21 Mar. 2025
There’s no bad time to see the stars, but for a real spectacle, show up on a moonless night in July or August when the Perseid meteor shower is at its most active.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
His favorite part is when the sky glows with countless stars on a moonless night, and the towering sandstone formations cast mysterious silhouettes.
—Emese MacZko, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
David Lynch didn’t want to leave his viewers with an interpretation, but with something more visceral—like the taste of cherry pie and a cup of hot coffee, black as midnight on a moonless night.
—Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
The moon’s rising and setting times shift later by about 50 minutes each night, which means this weekend will feature moonless nights.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Choose from seven colors and patterns, including placid blue, moonless night, and koi orange.
—Gabriella Maestri, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2025
Nonbelievers will agree that the most haunting thing is the night sky, where the Milky Way shines on moonless nights.
—Roger Naylor and Scott Craven, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
Look to the southeast and south for that this month—and this week in particular, which will be largely moonless.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 26 June 2022
Jamie Carter, Space.com, 21 Mar. 2025
There’s no bad time to see the stars, but for a real spectacle, show up on a moonless night in July or August when the Perseid meteor shower is at its most active.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
His favorite part is when the sky glows with countless stars on a moonless night, and the towering sandstone formations cast mysterious silhouettes.
—Emese MacZko, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
David Lynch didn’t want to leave his viewers with an interpretation, but with something more visceral—like the taste of cherry pie and a cup of hot coffee, black as midnight on a moonless night.
—Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
The moon’s rising and setting times shift later by about 50 minutes each night, which means this weekend will feature moonless nights.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Choose from seven colors and patterns, including placid blue, moonless night, and koi orange.
—Gabriella Maestri, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2025
Nonbelievers will agree that the most haunting thing is the night sky, where the Milky Way shines on moonless nights.
—Roger Naylor and Scott Craven, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
Look to the southeast and south for that this month—and this week in particular, which will be largely moonless.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 26 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moonless
Adjective
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Gaze upon a twilit sky, the endless shore, the receding vista, the inside of palm to forehead.—
Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
28 Jan. 2023
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Zegler is the true find, a marvelous singer and a radiant persona, and Spielberg and Kaminski film her like a bright flare in a twilit ocean; her sheer presence papers over some of the more facile aspects of Maria’s characterization.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
11 Dec. 2021
Adjective
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When the summer heat creeps to unbearable temperatures, pre-dawn and post-dusk become the most appealing times to run.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
1 Aug. 2022
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Mylar space blankets draped across their shoulders glistened a surreal golden hue as the vessel’s blinding strobe lights illuminated the post-dusk spectacle.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Dec. 2021
Adjective
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Amazingly, not one species included in the dataset showed an exclusively crepuscular pattern of dawn and dusk activity, as defined in the study, despite many animals being characterized as such in prior research.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
26 Feb. 2025
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Use that as a guide to cut wedges in the shape of crepuscular rays of sunlight, with the rinds as the base (see photo below).—
Betty Hallock,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Dec. 2024
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“Moonless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moonless. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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