[
UK
/mˈuːnlaɪt/
]
[ US /ˈmunˌɫaɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈmunˌɫaɪt/ ]
NOUN
-
the light of the Moon
the Moon was bright enough to read by
moonlight is the smuggler's enemy
VERB
-
work a second job, usually after hours
The law student is moonlighting as a taxi driver
How To Use moonlight In A Sentence
- It will not be washed out by moonlight this year, since the Moon will be a waning crescent just a couple of days from New.
- She was simple in all respects, but her warm ice blue eyes brought out every feature and long wavy brown hair shone in the moonlight.
- Jade, which was recovered from the river when its reflection was seen in the moonlight, was an important commodity.
- He was asleep on the window, looking angelic as the moonlight shone in, making his skin a smooth pale lucid colour.
- The letters were carved in a cramped scrawl, moonlight etching the crevices and staining the shadows silver.
- There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons. CHAPTER VIII
- The small piece of gold glittered brightly in the moonlight, setting off the red ruby it encircled.
- how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank
- The smooth surface of the lake reflected back the brilliant moonlight.
- The crew braces for shock, the boat shudders and a giant plume of boat wash is the only mark left in the faint moonlight as the boat races forward into harm's way.