moonlit

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Recent Examples of moonlit Spain pulses with fiery rhythm—where flamenco flares in moonlit plazas and ancient Roman aqueducts stride across golden fields. Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025 Artist Erin Schroeder will show attendees how to paint two palm trees over a moonlit beach. Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025 With summer comes endless opportunities for alfresco get-togethers and moonlit dinner soirees—a.k.a. Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 1 Aug. 2025 On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of them Black, departed Beaufort, South Carolina, on three gunboats. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for moonlit
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moonlit
Adjective
  • All three living areas provide breezy sea vistas and open out to sunlit terraces.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The Red Sox offense was so quiet that in the bottom of the second, a large flock of birds gathered in a sunlit patch of center field grass at the edge of the warning track and remained there undisturbed for several minutes.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • All the lucky recipient will have to do is water it, set it near a sunny window, and enjoy the results.
    L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Mayer's set capped off a sunny weekend of live music as the second headliner, following rock band the Kings of Leon the night before.
    Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And her chihuahua, Betty, had pink glittery nails and a pink glittery collar, and her shiny name tag.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Can a record be shiny and also kind of earthy and spare, in the whole?
    Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Moonlit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moonlit. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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