How to Use lunar in a Sentence

lunar

adjective
Definition of lunarnext
  • That means there’s no lunar light to wash out the show.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2024
  • On the night of the full moon and with a clear sky, from the mist of the falls, a lunar rainbow will appear.
    — Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The moon takes about 30 days to revolve around the Earth, which is called a lunar cycle.
    — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The next lunar new year begins on Jan. 22, and the new feng shui cycle starts Feb. 4.
    — Cao Li, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Later, a lunar sextile to karmic Saturn gives us the urge to make the day count.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The sun and moon are hidden from sight in lunar and solar eclipses.
    — Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2024
  • There are lots of reasons to return to the lunar surface.
    — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • There will be two solar eclipses and two lunar eclipses in 2023.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The eventual goal is to build a base on the lunar surface.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • As always, this New Moon marks the start of a new lunar cycle.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The United Arab Emirates had a mini lunar rover on board that was lost in the crash.
    — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 26 May 2023
  • While that equals the lunar distance from the Earth, the moon was nowhere near its position at that point.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • So, one of the first things is trying to build a self-sustainable lunar base.
    — Bret Baier, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • This year, the holiday falls on Sept. 17, the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.
    — Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The date changes each year because of the lunar calendar.
    — Nadia Cantú, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Along with that, this year will see lunar eclipses in May and October.
    — Lydia Wang, Women's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
  • There’s a reason why countries want to reach key lunar sites first.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The landing marked the first time any nation has landed near the south pole and the first lunar touchdown for India.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Unlike Earth dust, lunar dust clings and is hard to brush off surfaces.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Which country looked to land on the moon the world’s first commercial lunar lander? 10.
    — CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
  • For example, say your lunar rover runs out of juice in the middle of the lunar night, with 8 days to go till dawn.
    — New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Apollo 17 spent 75 hours on the lunar surface, the longest stay at the Moon of any human mission.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Aboard was astronaut Alan Bean, who had just become the fourth man to walk on the lunar surface.
    — Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Launched in December, the Lunar Flashlight was supposed to hunt for ice in the shadowed craters of the lunar south pole.
    — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 12 May 2023
  • This process makes the lunar surface prone to puckering—just as a smooth grape dries into a wrinkly raisin.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The crew includes the first woman and first person of color on a lunar mission.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The Japanese tycoon launched plans for the lunar voyage in 2018, buying all the seats on the spaceship.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Still, experts haven’t yet ironed out exactly how the lunar time would work.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
  • From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move.
    — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2024
  • This lunar phase sees the moon positioned between the Earth and the sun, making the moon invisible and the night skies completely free from moonlight.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024

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