moonshine

How To Use moonshine In A Sentence

• Of course they spoke of their brew as if it were a medicinal cure-all when in reality they produced highly refined and greatly prized moonshine.
• It got the name ‘moonshine’ during Prohibition after the light by which mash men tended their illegal stills.
• This image evolved over the decades, and the moonshiner became fixed as a corncob-pipe-smoking craftsman filling stoneware jugs with a clear and tasty elixir while keeping an eye out for pesky revenuers. Hipster Moonshine
• Suspicion hath it that in this neighborhood, in a still wilder and more secluded spot, there was not long ago another kind of "cratur," not at all extinct, but alive with all the fiery headiness of moonshine "old corn" whiskey. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
• Most moonshine is drunk by African-Americans in unlicensed bars called nip joints or shot houses. CHASING the WHITE DOG
• Someone had apparently set up a still that produced a potent form of moonshine and a yeasty homemade beer.
• He and his friend Willie Brown would often sit on tombstones, writing ominous melodies and drinking moonshine.
• Before going at the piles of splintered remains with wooden mallets, Mick and Mairtin get juiced on a potent Irish moonshine called poteen and fiddle with the unearthed bits. Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
• At least Morton would never fall into that trap ... But it was all moonshine.
• I use perennial alpine pinks, biennial sweet William and self-sowing annual candytuft to edge beds of Jupiter's-beard and June-blooming yarrows such as pale yellow ‘Taygetea’ and ‘Moonshine’.