What's the difference between moonlit and sunlit?

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.

Sunlit


Definition:

  • (a.) Lighted by the sun.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The online world is sunlit and quaint, with a jolly host called Papa, who, when they enter, offers his guests a little girl.
  • (2) For the writers of the software, the upgrade path takes us all towards the sunlit uplands.
  • (3) Unlike the brightly coloured coral reefs found in shallow, sunlit tropical waters, deepwater coral reefs are found in cold water at depths sunlight doesn't penetrate.
  • (4) Where most of the UK sees a decline in manufacturing, lay-offs in the steel industry and widespread insecurity about the global economy, George Osborne sees only sunlit uplands, smiling faces and Hovis adverts.
  • (5) The burst of violence was brief – maybe 15 seconds – just long enough for an adrenaline spike before the storyline jumped back to the present day, where a cockroach was scuttling along a countertop in a quiet, sunlit room.
  • (6) It is certainly just as well that the Lib Dems enjoy the sunlit uplands while they can: dark clouds, in the ominous shape of European and local elections, are rolling up over the horizon.
  • (7) Director general Thompson is often in the US, and stayed at the Fairmont in Washington – "a sunlit urban oasis... adjacent to historic Georgetown" – in February 2005, at a cost of £162.84.
  • (8) And if one will hold on, he will discover that God walks with him, and that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace.” Reverend Pinckney and his congregation understood that spirit.
  • (9) It comes as a joyful, sunlit contrast to the shut-in world of the bedroom that preceded it, pale faces illuminated by screens.
  • (10) A few weeks ago, Johnson assured us that “sunlit meadows” lay beyond a leave vote.
  • (11) Those closer to the action reported the unfazed goalkeeper in his canary yellow jersey to be whistling unconcernedly as he made his way from that sunlit field.
  • (12) As the Declaration of Principles was signed at a sunlit South Lawn ceremony, Mr Arafat, dressed in chequered keffiyeh and a military uniform, offered his hand to Mr Rabin - the symbolic gesture of reconciliation for which a watching world was waiting.
  • (13) With no obvious signs of impending doom, the record and hi-fi industries turned their eyes to the sunlit uplands of a new format.
  • (14) For those minded to hate supermarkets and all their evil works, these have been sunlit days.
  • (15) The two helicopters broke a quiet, sunlit autumnal morning to land at the logging community’s small airport.
  • (16) The above indicates that elasmobranch lens epithelial cells contain UV-labile actin filaments, and that near-UV radiation, as is present in the sunlit environment, can break down the actin structure in these cells.
  • (17) Over cold tea in a sunlit cafe in Greece's second city, Paraskeva says she has written "literally hundreds of letters".
  • (18) The woman sipping tea in a sunlit garden deep in Afrikaner country does and does not resemble the Zola Budd Britain remembers.
  • (19) A "secular celebrant", Debbie Malynn, conducted a brief, sunlit ceremony for family and friends of the robber and his wife.
  • (20) "I have not come as a taskmaster," she said, her eyes elevated towards the room's ornate sunlit ceiling as if focusing on some indefinable spot.

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