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How to use moonshine in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun, verb

Moonshine means the light of the moon. Example: “They watered down the moonshine.”

Examples of moonshine by meaning

nounHigh-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.

  • They watered down the moonshine.

nounNonsense.

  • He was talking moonshine.
  • Suppose you had decided to follow Snowball, with his moonshine of windmills—Snowball, who, as we now know, was no better than a criminal?”1945, George Orwell, chapter 5, in Animal Farm
  • The idea was moonshine, I was informed.2012 October 28, Robin McKie, “David Attenborough: force of nature”, in The Observer, retrieved 29 Oct 2012

verbTo make homemade (especially, illicit) alcohol, especially distilled spirits.

  • His grandfather started to moonshine when things got really bad in 1933; when he got caught moonshining, he did a bit of time.
  • He started moonshining at the age of seven.2007, Jason Sumich, “It's All Legal Until You Get Caught: Moonshining in the Southern Appalachians”, in Ethnographic and Linguistic Field...

verbTo make (an ingredient) into such a drink.

  • Worse, he moonshined the honey into metheglin, an alcoholic brew.1985 June 6, “Opinion: Topics: Lean and Rich History: Ancient Eatings”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Dec 2023, Section A, page A26

More sentences with moonshine

  • Lord, that moonshine sure does pack a punch.From the entry pack a punch
  • That sentence is cast in golden moonshine and should never be disturbed.1990, Jack Matthews, Memoirs of a Bookman, Ohio University Press, page 115. From the entry postilion sentence
  • It wasn't just the violent Prohibition-era gang wars that were dangerous to Americans drinking homemade moonshine and bathtub gin.2008 December 5, “Top 10 Prohibition Tales: Mortal Moonshine”, in Time, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2012. From the entry bathtub gin
  • Where downhill skiers have slopes illuminated by flood lamps to boost their vertical mileage, snowshoers and cross-country skiers rely on moonshine.2007 January 28, Elaine Glusac, “It’s Night. Shall We Snorkel, Cycle or Hike?”, in New York Times. From the entry snowshoer
  • After this Martin became very despondent and withdrew to the lorry to console himself with a bottle of "babash" (moonshine).1994, Mary L. Gill, Presence, Identity and Meaning in the Trinidad Carnival. From the entry babash
  • “Of all the trumpery moonshine!” Mr Wilkins exploded.1954, Anthony Buckeridge, According to Jennings, London: William Collins, Sons, OCLC 255905255; republished London: Stratus Books, 2003…. From the entry trumpery
  • Oh, daftened wi' the moonshine they call love.1913, The Windsor Magazine, volume 37, page 97. From the entry daften
  • The name "Appalachia" evokes a host of popular images and stereotypes: feuds, individualism, moonshine, subsistence farming, quilting bees, illiteracy, and dueling banjos, to name just a few.1998, David Colin Crass, The Southern Colonial Backcountry, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry dueling banjos
  • There was no restraint as to the quality of liquor they sold, whether squirrel whiskey or moonshine, just so long as it provided the patrons with a kick.1960, James A. McRae, chapter 11, in Call Me Tomorrow, page 108. From the entry squirrel whiskey

Meaning of moonshine

  1. noun The light of the moon.
  2. noun The light reflected off Earth's Moon.
  3. noun The light reflected off a moon.

Full definition of moonshine

Questions about moonshine in a sentence

How do you use moonshine in a sentence?
Moonshine is used as a noun and verb. For example: “They watered down the moonshine.”
What is a short sentence with moonshine?
“He was talking moonshine.”
What does moonshine mean?
Moonshine means the light of the moon.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moonshine (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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