Example sentences for: moon-faced

How can you use “moon-faced” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I'd bought a cone of solid sugar and a boxOf tea for the saint himself, a felt-tip penFor his son, the saint-elect, and bubblegumFor a confusion of small fry--the five-year-oldAunt, say, and her seven-year-old nephew.Nothing for the women, of course, the tattooed,One-eyed, moon-faced matron, or her daughterWhose husband had long ago run awayAfter killing their newborn by pouringA bottle of cheap cologne down its throat.This was, after all, our first meeting.

  • In one interval checked, W reveals Montague (Romeo's family name), Montmorency (a kind of cherry), Montrachet (wine), monuron (a herbicide), moon-eye (a fish), moon-eyed (open-eyed), and moonflower , as headwords not in L ; the same interval in L reveals montbretia (a plant), Montessorian (teaching method), month of Sundays , Montilla , -mony (suffix) Moog synthesizer , moon daisy (the oxeye), moon-faced , moonglow , and moonrat , which do not appear in W . Leaving aside the plants and animals, which are differently distributed for American and British users, the only significant omission from L is Montrachet , while the important words omitted from W are Montessorian , month of Sundays , -mony , Moog synthesizer , moon-faced , and moonglow . The last word is not in the RHD II , but it should be, for the L citation is from Henry Miller and the word also appears in the lyrics written for the popularized rendition of Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony.

  • Many responses cast Donald Trump not as a genuine womanizer, able to exploit his transient sexual partners on his own merits, but as a pseudo-womanizer whose consorts see him as a sort of moon-faced paycheck.


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