MOON in a Sentence

Learn MOON from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

249 example sentences for MOON, such as:

1. A full moon hovered in the sky.
2. All was still, the moon had set.
3. The moon waxes and wanes every month.
4. The moon yields less light than the sun.
5. The silvery globe of the moon hung in the sky.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOON
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
moon
 n.  the round object that moves in the sky around the earth and can be seen at night
 v.  be idle in dreamy way
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Even then it was no easy matter to keep to the right track, for the moon had not yet risen, and the high cliffs on either side made the obscurity more profound.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
2  Boxer would even come out at nights and work for an hour or two on his own by the light of the harvest moon.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
3  She in her striped dress continued him, murmuring, in front of the book cases: "The moor is dark beneath the moon, rapid clouds have drunk the last pale beams of even."
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
4  Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless, and the lane, which the maid's window overlooked, was brilliantly lit by the full moon.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
5  It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and a flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
6  The scud had banked over the moon, and it was now quite dark.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
7  No little Gradgrind had ever seen a face in the moon; it was up in the moon before it could speak distinctly.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
8  What I tell you," said Gurth, "is as true as the moon is in heaven.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  I leave it, lady, ere this moon again changes.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
10  She saw a very brilliant little moon shining above the afterglow over the oaks.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
11  All was still, the moon had set.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  The moon wouldn't be far enough, because even there you could look back and see the earth, dirty, beastly, unsavoury among all the stars: made foul by men.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
13  The boy never comes to anything that's born at new moon.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
14  "I'd sooner go without drink at Lammas-tide than be a man of no moon," continued Christian, in the same shattered recitative.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
15  Save one; and this was the nearest of any, the moon of the whole shining throng.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
Example Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
16  It was dark now and the sliver of a new moon could be seen overhead.
17  The family, is Mulan for the father of story; affection, is this story; affection, is A Bing the moon reflected in the melody.
18  The moon high up the night I hope my love to you can follow you to faraway places.
19  The phases of the moon include the new and the full moon.
20  The moon yields less light than the sun.
21  The moon waxes and wanes every month.
22  We put in the darkneof the heart is called the moon dancing.
23  The space race reached its culmination in the first moon walk.
24  You might as well shoot for the moon and ask for a promotion as well as a raise.
25  Astronauts have brought back specimens of rock from the moon.
26  A full moon hovered in the sky.
27  The silvery globe of the moon hung in the sky.
28  People have travelled through space to the moon.
29  The moon landing inaugurated a new era in space exploration.
30  Somewhere in the streets beyond a dog suddenly howled, baying at the moon.