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How to use moonbeam in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Moonbeam means a ray or shaft of moonlight. Example: “Quickly the moon sent a moonbeam down, and it shone through the window, right on the face of the sleeping child, kissed him, and gave him a pleasant dream.”

Examples of moonbeam by meaning

nounA ray or shaft of moonlight.

  • Quickly the moon sent a moonbeam down, and it shone through the window, right on the face of the sleeping child, kissed him, and gave him a pleasant dream.1972, Ardyce DeLapp, Stories that Teach: A Collection, page 31
  • The mountain flanked on the east by Devil's Peak and glancing to the right Lion's Head and Signal Hill shimmers and the residents at the foot of the mountain bask in the splendour of moonbeams.2013, Lindsay Tonkin, Moonbeams and Shadows, page 28

nounSomeone who tends to be dreamy and prone to unrealistic romanticism.

  • Darcy is often very grownup around her mother, as if she knew that Lynda is a bit of a moonbeam and needs looking after.1980, Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
  • Dreaming of the mountain was for moonbeams, he told me, not for people who had been born up there.2011, Tony D'Souza, Mule: A Novel of Moving Weight, page 280
  • You really are a moonbeam.2014, Mike Royko, Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997

nounA goal or aspiration that appears attractive but is ultimately insubstantial.

  • So much for moonbeams and politics.1968 July 12, William A. McWhirter, “Coalition against the Humphrey steamroller”, in LIFE
  • So the idea of Common Cause and other reform advacates that government corruption can be ended by public financing of election campaigns is just another silly moonbeam.1991, New Unionist - Issues 162-209

More sentences with moonbeam

  • Oh, you can scoff, Mr White, but you siblings that thirst for glory chase moonbeams.2021, Richard Woodman, A King's Cutter, page 27. From the entry chase moonbeams
  • If helicopter liftouts and lovers on the lam got the media excited, the film industry wove moonbeams.2018, John Kerr, Wanted: John & Lucy. From the entry liftout
  • Here, there and everywhere they search, chasing moonbeams and ending up disillusioned.2010, Raymond Arroyo Jr., Lead Us Not into Temptation. From the entry chase moonbeams
  • Talk about moonbeams from cucumbers; the Taipings were even dafter than that.1985, George MacDonald Fraser, chapter 1, in Flashman and the Dragon: From the Flashman Papers, 1860, London: Collins Harvill, →ISBN…. From the entry daft
  • Do you cringe before a religion compounded of clouds and moonbeams?1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part III: “The Mayors”, chapter 7, page 106, ¶ 13. From the entry mountebank
  • Klinsmann had to know from observing the cranky screwface Dempsey displayed in public that this was no moonbeam of a player.2014, George Vecsey, Eight World Cups: My Journey through the Beauty and Dark Side of Soccer, Times Books, →ISBN, page 249. From the entry screwface
  • These jewels, drinking in the sunshine by day, gave it forth during the hours of darkness in a radiance of pink light and a soft effulgence as of moonbeams.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3. From the entry effulgence

Meaning of moonbeam

  1. noun A ray or shaft of moonlight.
  2. noun Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Philiris.
  3. noun Someone who tends to be dreamy and prone to unrealistic romanticism.

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Questions about moonbeam in a sentence

How do you use moonbeam in a sentence?
Moonbeam is used as a noun. For example: “Quickly the moon sent a moonbeam down, and it shone through the window, right on the face of the sleeping child, kissed him, and gave him a pleasant dream.”
What is a short sentence with moonbeam?
“You really are a moonbeam.”
What does moonbeam mean?
Moonbeam means a ray or shaft of moonlight.

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