How To Use Moonless In A Sentence
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Some friends and I were catfishing the Minnesota River until well past midnight on a cloudy, moonless night.
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From my window, I could see a raw streak of red hissing its way against the moonless night.
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Nothing is more frightening to me than the pitch dark on a moonless night in the countryside with no street lights.
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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
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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
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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
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On many moonless nights, they have enjoyed a warm soak, watching thousands of stars, in complete solitude.
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Deep in the rain forests of Central America, lumberjacks hew the primavera tree in the dark of a moonless night.
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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
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`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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The colourful crackers looking resplendent on a moonless night was an impressive work.
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As it was a dark, moonless night and the Americans were advancing silently, a German relief column was unaware that an American attack was under way.
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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.
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With nothing but a pitch-black, moonless night in front of me, my biggest concern was flying away from the water.
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They rose before dawn and stepped out beneath a moonless sky aswarm with stars.
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The sky was black and moonless; the night of the new moon the most terrifying time of the month in these parts.
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The young crescent moon had risen, a circumstance which Medea declared enabled her to see more clearly into the future than she could do at the time of the Luna-negers as she called the moonless night.
The Bride of the Nile — Complete
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On one screen a young woman moves though the moonless night and an unpeopled cityscape to meet her lover/friend.
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I didn't want to stumble around in the moonless dark, so I decided to head back.
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The only constraint appears to be a moonless sky for a couple of hours before civil twilight.
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Now I can tell you about the time I got my limit of snipes ... it was a dark and moonless night in a midwestern cow pasture ....
Mexican bus schedules
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It was afternoon, twilight yet out of doors: starless and moonless twilight; for, though keenly freezing with a dry, black frost, heaven wore a mask of clouds congealed and fast-locked.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Now it resembled a low fortress wall with blocks of stone evenly cut and dressed, and white lines to guide devotees on moonless nights.
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Blacker than a moonless night and edged with crimson, the blue and purple undersides smelled of wing musk and of Dante—burning leaves and November frost and deep, dark earth.
Etched in Bone
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When she awoke again the boat had stayed, and she was come aland; but the dawn was not yet come, and the night was moonless, yet was there light enough to see, from the water and the stars, that the bows of the boat were lying safe on a little sandy beach.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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the dark moonless night
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At night the sky had been swept clean of clouds and the stars were blazing in the moonless night.
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On moonless nights when the landlord and his wife were too busy with trade to notice his absence, he prowled the bay, committing to memory its tidal vagaries and hazards to navigation, while he easily scried the maneuvers of the Cathran fleet and judged the competence of the different squadron leaders.
Conqueror's Moon
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It was now a matter of time before the moonless darkness of night descended.
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a moonless planet
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As it was a moonless night visibility on the strait was non-existent, though the pelting rain had eased somewhat.
THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
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They sit in silence in the back as the car drives off in a dark moonless night.
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a black moonless night
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At one point he took a wrong turn and found himself caught in a moonless trough, trapped in brambles and deep bracken.
GRACE
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Standing on the fantail of a ship beneath a canopy of starlight alone on a moonless night, the first time he'd ever seen the Southern Cross and it made him weep for the beauty, the implication was, at once symbolic and wondrous.
Southern Cross
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He spoke of the long moonless night lyings-in - wait, the pestilential fens, the rivers envenomed by leaves of poison-plants, the deep snow-drifts, the scorching suns, the scorpions, and rains of grasshoppers; he also descanted on the peculiarities of the great lions of the Atlas, their way of fighting, their phenomenal vigour; and their ferocity in the mating season.
Tartarin of Tarascon
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To avoid predators, some animals - like some snakes, salamanders or frogs - restrict their movements under a full moon and tend to hunt more on moonless nights.
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That was a dark, moonless night.
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Now it resembled a low fortress wall with blocks of stone evenly cut and dressed, and white lines to guide devotees on moonless nights.
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With officials at the CIA and the White House watching on television monitors, tensions increased when one of the two Black Hawk helicopters lowered into the compound and, beneath a moonless sky, fell heavily to the ground.
Osama Bin Laden Was Unarmed During Navy SEAL Raid, Says White House
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The moonless night is dark and incredibly clear.
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His hair was the same black as the moonless night.
