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moonless

[ UK /mˈuːnləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. without a moon or a visible moon
    a moonless planet
    the dark moonless night

How To Use moonless In A Sentence

  • Some friends and I were catfishing the Minnesota River until well past midnight on a cloudy, moonless night.
  • From my window, I could see a raw streak of red hissing its way against the moonless night.
  • Nothing is more frightening to me than the pitch dark on a moonless night in the countryside with no street lights.
  • He kept to the trees, moving from shadow to shadow in the moonless night, concentrating on making no noise, pausing often to listen. A TIME OF WAR
  • The coffin was forced, the cerements torn, and the melancholy relics, clad in sackcloth, after being rattled for hours on moonless byways, were at length exposed to uttermost indignities before a class of gaping boys. The Body-Snatcher
  • Return thither on some clear, dark, moonless night, with a ring of frost in the air, and only a star or two set sparsedly in the vault of heaven; and you will find a sight as stimulating as the hoariest summit of the Alps. The solitude seems perfect; the patient astronomer, flat on his back under the Observatory dome and spying heaven's secrets, is your only neighbour; and yet from all round you there come up the dull hum of the city, the tramp of countless people marching out of time, the rattle of carriages and the continuous keen jingle of the tramway bells. Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
  • On many moonless nights, they have enjoyed a warm soak, watching thousands of stars, in complete solitude.
  • Deep in the rain forests of Central America, lumberjacks hew the primavera tree in the dark of a moonless night.
  • My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho: Book summary
  • `And, my lords, I should remind you that it was midnight on a moonless night. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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