How to Use moonscape in a Sentence

moonscape

noun

• The valley is a desolate moonscape.
• The crew hiked through the ashen moonscape that used to be their homes.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• Side gusts took the dogs off the road into a moonscape of drifts.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2020
• Along a scenic strip known as Lovers’ Park, the floor of the reservoir has become a vast moonscape.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• The front line, on the city’s outskirts, looks like a muddy moonscape or a scene from World War I.
  — Natalia Yermak, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2022
• The front line, on the city’s outskirts, looks like a muddy moonscape, or a scene from World War I.
  — Natalia Yermak Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• The weather in Phoenix was sunny, warm, and dry, the desert a moonscape, and the sprawl impressive.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 13 Jan. 2024
• Here's what to do when confronted by a minefield — or a moonscape — in front of you.
  — Dwight Adams, Indianapolis Star, 1 Feb. 2018
• On the horizon the parched moonscape met a wall of black smoke from the oil wells the Islamic State has set ablaze as a cover from airstrikes.
  — Tim Arango, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2016
• Winding toward the forest through the moonscape of what used to be people’s homes, there are few signs of life.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
• Too hot, and the fire can turn large areas into a moonscape barren of the seeds needed for new growth.
  — NBC News, 22 Sep. 2020
• The barren moonscape of the mine and the steel and cement structures from the coal plant are in stark contrast to the forest cover beyond.
  — Martin Kirchner, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
• Thousands of pumpjacks bucked like broncos on miles and miles of moonscape.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
• Yet life was quick to return to the moonscape left by the eruption, Franklin and other scientists learned.
  — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 5 Oct. 2017
• The camp looked like a moonscape with tents pitched between rocky ravines and glacier shale that can be slippery and dangerous.
  — Michael Clinton, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
• Parts of Gaza today, Martha, look like a moonscape, dozens of buildings flattened.
  — ABC News, 16 May 2021
• The town itself was in ruins: Satellite footage taken over the summer shows a moonscape of craters.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• The samples on display, which were air-dried, look like clumps of moonscape or a small asteroid.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
• The flood turned the countryside into what looked like an ash-colored moonscape.
  — Time, 8 Feb. 2021
• Once a verdant collection of canyons, hillsides and farms, the land is now a barren moonscape.
  — Washington Post, 6 June 2018
• What once was a lush forest is now a moonscape in recovery, where tiny conifers and scrubby brush have since emerged from the debris.
  — oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2021
• Cars were flattened and trees burned out in moonscapes that had been residential streets.
  — TIME, 10 Oct. 2023
• Once a verdant collection of canyons, hillsides and farms, the area was reduced to a moonscape of ash by the avalanche of fast-moving molten rock, mud, and debris.
  — Mark Stevenson and Sonia Perez D., chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2018
• The landscape had changed from a stark moonscape to humid deciduous brush to bleached rocks and semi-arid plants.
  — Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 4 Apr. 2023
• But those expecting a bleak moonscape, barren and lifeless, won’t find it here.
  — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• But instead of lauding Sudbury as a lunar training ground, the press came up with another moniker for the city: a moonscape.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2020
• Kris Burmeister says he's seen his Leilani Estates neighborhood go from a lush jungle to a moonscape.
  — CBS News, 30 May 2018
• For decades, people have used Jeeps and other off-road vehicles to reach the rocky moonscape of the glacial moraine via the Jim Creek area, on the north side of the valley, according to a history of the area.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2021
• The winds ripping across that frozen moonscape were almost unbearable.
  — Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, 14 Jan. 2020
• The Lafayette Station parking lot, which routinely fills up by 8 a.m., was a near-empty moonscape on Monday at noon.
  — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 9 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024