(1) "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
(2) I have known him since a moonless night in 1971 when he led me clandestinely into what was then East Pakistan and is now Bangladesh , past villages the Pakistani army had raped and razed.
(3) On a moonless night in 1971 Moudud Ahmed led me clandestinely into what was then East Pakistan – and is now Bangladesh – past villages that the Pakistani army had raped and razed.
(4) The duration of the oviposition cycle of mosquitoes released blood-fed in their village of capture was 2.04 days at the full moon and increased to 2.4 days during moonless periods.
(5) culicifacies was more active during moonless hours and its activity showed no correlation with temperature and humidity during most part of the year.
Moonlit
Definition:
(a.) Illumined by the moon.
Example Sentences:
(1) For all the pre-season talk of how he and van Gaal would enjoy country walks, trips to the Arndale centre and moonlit swims together upon teaming up at Old Trafford, the 31-year-old has endured a miserable season and the Mirror reports that he’ll be sold this summer to free up £200,000 of weekly wages that will find their way into the bank account of PSG’s Edinson Cavani .
(2) Why it's special On a moonlit night, there are spectacular views over Kinder Scout, Howden and Derwent moors, the Edale valley, and the limestone crags of Winnats Pass.
(3) You know what God loves most?” he asked the crowd, hushed and enraptured on a moonlit night.
(4) It took four more hours for Greenpeace to bring in its inflatables and a further 50 minutes in the choppy moonlit sea to intercept it.
(5) And, with that, he volunteers to give me a moonlit ride around the moai on his horse.
(6) Brooke, more deeply confused than ever, composed a poem, Beauty on Beauty, celebrating their moonlit frolics, but when he was alone with Gardner, his compliments were at best ambiguous.
(7) There are problems of coordination.” But early on Saturday the calculations and machinations of the week dissolved, somehow, into the ritual and personal solemnities of the moonlit night.
(8) I met Stanley and I moonlighted, or moonlit, with Stanley while I was working at Time Life.
(9) In summer it can reach 40C in Rio, and Arpoador is where Cariocas come to cool down with a beer and a moonlit dip.
(10) On a moonlit night there are stunning views along the Thames valley.
(11) I'll never forget lying in a tent on the Maasai Mara trying to sleep against the awful, blood-curdling roar of lions hunting on the moonlit plains.
(12) On a clear moonlit night, Isaiah and four other runners loaded a canoe with goods to exchange with a Russian oil tanker moored off the coast.
(13) Perhaps I would have done better on a moonlit night myself, or at least on a pair of skis.
(14) Grant Shapps and I spent many a moonlit night at popular Suffolk angling spots filling roadside fridges with comatose larvae, discarding maggots that failed to thrive, talking about our dreams.
(15) After a warm, moonlit night the mist and mizzle descended, making it impossible to judge the moment when the sun rose over the Wiltshire plain without an accurate watch.
(16) Captures of anophelines were not affected by moonlight, whereas trap collections of culicines were lower on moonlit nights.
(17) The gallery was opened with a woman’s crying ceremony lead by Djalinda Yunipingu, who truncated the trance the moonlit ritual induced by telling us: “It’s over.
(18) Signed by directors of the company Gloscon, which is licensed to carry out the cull in Gloucestershire, and dated last week, the letter says the disruption is proving “quite significant” and adds: “We are not achieving planned numbers.” It says the bright moonlit nights at the start of the cull did not help but makes it clear the protesters are the biggest “headache” and asks farmers to pass on any intelligence about activists and their tactics.