Examples of moonbeam in a Sentence
Moonbeams shone through the leaves of the trees.
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But the dude was smiling, and his eyes twinkled like moonbeams hitting sand.
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Nadeen Currie, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
Evolution’s answer is a precise celestial clock wound by a molecule that can sense moonbeams and sync the worms’ reproductive lives to lunar phases.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
These disorienting, disruptive moonbeams will force us all to do some emotional spring cleaning.
—ELLE, 1 May 2023
If Jokic misses one more moonbeam of a shot.
—Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
This day has been a special dream from morning ‘til the last moonbeam.
—Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 12 Oct. 2022
Choose from several colors including moonbeam (pictured), ocean, rose, sky, pine, glacier, calamine, and sagebrush.
—Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 18 Aug. 2022
The oval bar, illuminated as if by a moonbeam and ringed with metal fringe on top, is the heart of the setting and the source of some serious liquid pleasures, including such revivifying combinations as matcha, Japanese whisky, yuzu and honey syrup.
—Washington Post, 18 May 2022
Illuminated as if by a moonbeam, the oval bar is the heart of the restaurant, situated on the 11th floor of the Watermark.
—Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
Nadeen Currie, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
Evolution’s answer is a precise celestial clock wound by a molecule that can sense moonbeams and sync the worms’ reproductive lives to lunar phases.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
These disorienting, disruptive moonbeams will force us all to do some emotional spring cleaning.
—ELLE, 1 May 2023
If Jokic misses one more moonbeam of a shot.
—Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
This day has been a special dream from morning ‘til the last moonbeam.
—Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 12 Oct. 2022
Choose from several colors including moonbeam (pictured), ocean, rose, sky, pine, glacier, calamine, and sagebrush.
—Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 18 Aug. 2022
The oval bar, illuminated as if by a moonbeam and ringed with metal fringe on top, is the heart of the setting and the source of some serious liquid pleasures, including such revivifying combinations as matcha, Japanese whisky, yuzu and honey syrup.
—Washington Post, 18 May 2022
Illuminated as if by a moonbeam, the oval bar is the heart of the restaurant, situated on the 11th floor of the Watermark.
—Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
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First Known Use
1535, in the meaning defined above
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moonbeam
noun
moon·beam
ˈmün-ˌbēm 
: a ray of light from the moon
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