How to Use moonshine in a Sentence

moonshine

noun

• Everything they said was just a load of moonshine.
• Pine gave Claflin a shot of moonshine to soothe his nerves.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
• So pop the cork on a fresh jug of moonshine and let’s get started.
  — Pstatz, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2010
• The best way to describe it is as the Irish version of moonshine.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• Stan and Ollie go to the mountains and find a well full of moonshine.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• There's a mash box underneath the porch where the moonshine aged.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 19 May 2017
• There's a mash box underneath the porch where the moonshine aged.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Go moonshine and wine sampling at the many stops along the Gatlinburg strip.
  — Andrea Reeves, The Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2022
• In the middle of the bridge, Kelly asked Swanson to stop and join them in a drink of moonshine rum.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2020
• My life there was about moonshine and real stars sparkling on you.
  — Wallace Baine, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2018
• The modern world is awash in Capones, but the most brazen don’t run brothels, guns or moonshine.
  — Jay Newman, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
• And, yes, adult guests can sip on homemade moonshine made with corn mash.
  — Jay Jones, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Inside the man’s car, police found an open jar of moonshine.
  — cleveland.com, 26 June 2019
• Taste moonshine, craft beer, smooth spirits and fine wine.
  — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 1 Feb. 2018
• To that end, its house spirit is moonshine, and its owner hopes to cash in on the farm’s gangster lore.
  — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
• Their drink theme is moonshine and the decor is oversize kitschy art of famous people.
  — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 11 July 2019
• My house is a red-cedar cabin on the land where my grandfather used to make moonshine.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 3 July 2018
• Tim invents a low-cost way to make his first single-malt moonshine.
  — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2020
• That is, until Tucker aims it at the man’s head and calmly splits for the woods with both moonshine and pistol.
  — New York Times, 23 May 2018
• The Shinery wanted to serve moonshine flights, made up of five three-quarter-ounce pours.
  — Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2020
• Take a tour, have a taste, listen to live music, and maybe purchase a bottle of moonshine of your own.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2023
• His nickname went back to high school, drinking moonshine from old oil cans.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• Laslo took a shot of moonshine from the bottle in his desk and left with another reporter at 3:54 p.m.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• The moonshine-like drink is made with grain and water from the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 10 May 2021
• He was sentenced to two years in prison on moonshine and bootlegging charges.
  — Matt Crossman, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2019
• Heli back to the highlands for golf, clay shooting and glasses of moonshine on the treehouse deck.
  — Star-Telegram, star-telegram.com, 5 July 2017
• The animals were red-eyed — high on a concoction of weed, moonshine and God knows what else.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• Aside from beer, a bottle of lao-Lao, a moonshine made from fermented rice, was passed around.
  — David Amsden, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2018
• My head snapped up quicker than a jackrabbit on moonshine.
  — Clarkisha Kent, The Root, 11 Mar. 2018
• But the season's No. 1 takeaway was clear: Never drink Mags Bennett's apple pie moonshine.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 8 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024