Ernie Pyle

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

American Journalist

Use 'moonlit' to create a visual image of a scene illuminated by the moonlight, adding a layer of beauty or romance.

Visual Imagery

'Moonlit' emphasizes the natural light of the moon, as opposed to artificial lighting like lamps or streetlights.

Natural Illumination

Writers often use 'moonlit' to set a mood in storytelling, hinting at mystery, tranquility, or eerie quietness.

Mood Setting

 within that depression. The sky cleared, the rain stopped, and our heartbeat, the monstrous seas around us were transformed into the most beautiful moonlit mountains. It's hard to explain, but you enter a different mode when you head out there. Your boat is your entire world,

The surprising thing I...

 a tiny egg in a watery world. My parents never knew each other. One moonlit night before a storm, thousands of urchins, clams and corals released trillions of sperm and eggs into the open sea.

How Life Begins in the...

 eggs stowed in abdominal sacks the females make a clattering - to the sea here on the moonlit beaches of their own birth they brace themselves at the