moonset
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How to use moonset in a sentence
It is ten leagues to Ensenada from here, and we must do it between moonset and daylight, or they will catch us.
Lone Pine | R. B. (Richard Baxter) TownshendThat is to say, it cannot have been more than an hour after sunrise, and it cannot have been more than an hour before moonset.
The Astronomy of the Bible | E. Walter MaunderThere was a growing light in the sky that follows the darkness of moonset and runs before the break of dawn.
Vanguards of the Plains | Margaret McCarterThen soon was it midnight, and moonset, as we wended Down to the ship, and the merchant-folks' babble.
Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough | William Morris
British Dictionary definitions for moonset
/ (ˈmuːnˌsɛt) /
the moment when the moon disappears below the horizon
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