How to Use moon shot in a Sentence

moon shot

noun

• The moon shot soared through the Busch Stadium air at 106 mph.
  — Maria Torres, kansascity, 21 May 2018
• When Joey Gallo gave the Rangers a 3-2 lead with a moon shot in the top of the 10th, the Padres faced one of the best closers in baseball thus far.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2020
• Brito, who homered on Saturday as well, smashed a moon shot to left to lead off the fourth.
  — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 21 Feb. 2021
• Griffith described it as a moon shot—where the patient is the one taking the real risks.
  — Brandy Schillace, Wired, 27 Jan. 2022
• Then Gordon’s blast in the fourth, and Jorge Soler’s 441-foot solo moon shot in the fifth were the responses.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity, 3 May 2018
• Rollin added another moon shot off Raegan Breedlove in the sixth.
  — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2022
• The Yankees still trailed by three after his ninth-inning moon shot.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 21 Sep. 2022
• The bet that Meir and Elgrably appear to be making is certainly no moon shot.
  — Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• In mid-August, the first signs of an economic proposal by the league were leaked out but portrayed as more of a moon shot.
  — Maury Brown, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• Gallo flied out in his first two at-bats, the first caught by Bregman in left field, and in his last as his moon shot landed in George Springer's glove at the base of the right-field wall.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 29 Mar. 2018
• Mexico was leading 3-0 in the fifth inning when Kazuma Okamoto led off with moon shot to left field.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
• But his mission has morphed into the greatest moon shot of all: to bring bike racing to the American masses.
  — Outside Online, 12 Apr. 2021
• The first three American astronauts in the moon shot program were killed within minutes.
  — Rachel Riederer, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• The Texas law is fantastically reckless—not as much a legal moon shot as a volatile rocket poised to blow up—in more than one respect.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
• The very term moon shot may not have originated with the Apollo missions, but in the Los Angeles Coliseum, in the 1950s.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 16 July 2019
• For millions of Americans struggling to find a basic job, the prospect of locating willing investors and deal lawyers seems a moon shot, and the big money will stay out of reach.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
• Stanton, who had gone three whole games without a home run, belted his 52nd of the season Saturday, a first-inning moon shot to left center off the Phillies’ Aaron Nola.
  — Clark Spencer, miamiherald, 2 Sep. 2017
• The 32-second dream-like sequence spotlights a number of the studio’s most popular and long-running franchises, before settling on its classic moon shot.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Nov. 2022
• And among the nearly endless tasks that had to be completed for the Apollo moon shot, one woman spearheaded a critical engineering project: testing all the small gear the astronauts would take with them to the lunar surface.
  — Kathryn Tully, Smithsonian, 1 Apr. 2012
• Stan and Paul’s friendship, which had brought both men to fairy-dust riches, was permanently, irrevocably ceased with the collapse of their audacious corporate moon shot.
  — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024