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Moonlight


Definition:

  • (n.) The light of the moon.
  • (a.) Occurring during or by moonlight; characterized by moonlight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nevertheless, moonlight does not seem to have any effect on the composition of adult mosquito population since the difference in the parous rate of females collected during full moon and during no moon was not significant (P greater than 0.05).
  • (2) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
  • (3) Moonlight wins best picture Oscar, after Warren Beatty gives gong to La La Land Read more “Peak blackness is a rare metaphysical anomaly that can only occur when an amalgam of black excellence comes together at the same societal intersection,” he said.
  • (4) Quarterly self-report questionnaires documenting moonlighting activities were given to each of the 35 residents in the second and third postgraduate years (20 and 15 residents, respectively).
  • (5) AP Magic in the Moonlight Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight Woody Allen remains a hero at Cannes, an arena largely untroubled by accusation and counter-accusation surrounding his private life.
  • (6) A team of French paratroopers crept into the town by moonlight, advancing from the airport, they said.
  • (7) Both People's Daily – the official Communist party newspaper – and a state television channel devoted coverage last month to former leader Li Lanqing's search for the sheet music to Moonlight and Shadows, from a Dorothy Lamour film.
  • (8) Dr Sharmila Chowdury Radiographer Dr Sharmila Chowdury was suspended by Ealing hospital trust in west London after raising concerns in 2007 that colleagues were moonlighting at a nearby private hospital, a practice that was costing the NHS trust an estimated £250,000.
  • (9) Interestingly, their report, Tax Evasion Across Industries: Soft Credit Evidence From Greece, which documents the hidden, non-taxed economy, blames the current malaise not on dodgy taxi drivers or moonlighting refuse collectors, but on the professional classes.
  • (10) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
  • (11) Click here for the Magic in the Moonlight trailer Compared with the gloomy ruminations on ageing and aspiration that characterised the well-received Blue Jasmine, which won Cate Blanchett an Oscar , this is Allen going back to the knockabout farce and blithe May-December couplings that populate his lighter films.
  • (12) Magic in the Moonlight, which stars Colin Firth, Stone and Jackie Weaver, is released on 25 July in the US, on 28 August in Australia and 19 September in the UK.
  • (13) The costumes look remarkably grand for home theatricals, the jewellery is startlingly convincing, and the band evidently comprises moonlighting members of the Royal Horse Guards.
  • (14) A survey on moonlighting policy and practice was sent to all family practice residency program directors, and an 87 percent response rate obtained.
  • (15) These residents spend an average of 28 hours each month moonlighting.
  • (16) This increase in synaptic gain may compensate for the loss of rod light responsiveness caused by weak background light so that the animal can maintain good rod sensitivity under moonlight or starlight, the natural lighting condition for mating and food catching.
  • (17) Moonlighting by psychiatric residents, or employment outside the residency program, is a longstanding and widespread practice.
  • (18) Late-night hosts discussed Donald Trump’s speech to Congress, as Stephen Colbert asked: “Any chance there’s a mistake and Moonlight is the president?” On The Late Show, Colbert went live to discuss the address, noting that some attendees had worn special clothing just for the occasion.
  • (19) Available data do not support the claim that moonlighting, or employment outside psychiatric residency programs, is a dangerous activity for residents, patients, or employers of moonlighters.
  • (20) Magic in the Moonlight (25 July) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The latest from Woody Allen is something of a small gem, with Colin Firth and Emma Stone sauntering through a 1930s-era Côte d'Azur, saying witty things about magic and love and faith.

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.

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