How to Use moonbeam in a Sentence

moonbeam

noun
  • Moonbeams shone through the leaves of the trees.
  • The 55-45 blend of pinot noir and chardonnay has a pale moonbeam color and fine bubbles.
    Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The Greek electorate seemed to like butterflies and moonbeams.
    Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 26 June 2018
  • Its moonbeam color and scents of pineapple, cedar, sage and wet pavement draw you into the glass.
    Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 20 June 2020
  • Behind the blockbuster contracts, 40-point quarters and moonbeam threes, there is drudgery to what the Rockets do.
    Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 1 May 2018
  • Sean-Paul Schulte said his daughter was his sunshine, and Turner was his moonbeam.
    Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Sep. 2021
  • But the Warriors and their fans feed off those 30-foot moonbeams, low percentage for anybody but Steph.
    Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 12 June 2018
  • Turner’s mural shows a large frog, a small monkey, a peacock and a little snake in a jungle at night with the area lit by stars and moonbeams.
    Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • A full moon rises, sending moonbeams and ghostly shadows to flicker through the branches.
    Ken Denmead, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2010
  • 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.
    Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The sperms are the moonbeams and sunbeams and shadows of every thought, half thought, and follicle of feeling that have attended you since your first breath of hardship.
    Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The barcarole that sentimentally takes Pierrot home back to Bergamo, with a moonbeam for a rudder and a water lily for a boat, gets its sinister, otherworldly wind for its sails from the full quintet up to its eerie tricks.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020

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