moonstricken in a sentence

Definition

Moonstricken refers to being affected by a state of madness or irrational behavior, often attributed to the influence of the moon.

The villagers believed that she was moonstricken after she wandered into the forest under the full moon.
His moonstricken behavior at the party left everyone wondering what he had been drinking.
The poet wrote of a moonstricken lover, enchanted by the beauty of the night sky.
She felt a moonstricken sense of joy as she danced under the silver light of the moon.
Characters in the story often became moonstricken, losing themselves in dreams and fantasies.