The phrase "a moon like a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in poetic or descriptive contexts to create a simile comparing something to the moon.
Example: "She gazed at the night sky, her eyes reflecting a moon like a silver coin."
Alternatives: "a moon resembling a" or "a moon similar to a".
"This is huge; we could be mining this for the next 100 years," said Eric Sondergaard, a geologist with the Australian-owned company Greenland Minerals and Energy, who was on the outskirts of Narsaq one day recently, picking at rocks on a moon-like plateau rich with an estimated 10.5 million tons of rare earth ore.
She envisioned the playing space as a "moon-like structure" that would literalize the phrase "black-box theatre".
It cannot reveal an Earth-like planet with a Moon-like moon, but direct imaging may some day reveal exomoons after all.
The task consisted in reproducing three different periodic behaviours that could be visually interpreted as writing a square, a sideways "8" shape and a moon-like shape (see Fig. 5).
Un Lun Dun has a sun like a compact disc, a moon like the spindle of a cat's eye and roving headlights with no cars.
But say on a moon like Titan.
MDM, a props workshop well known in the art world for their work for Kapoor, Marc Quinn, the Chapman brothers and Damien Hirst, have spent months in their London workshop building two long wooden cylinders, covering them with polystyrene and working the surface into a bumpy, moon-like texture, or that of a beaten piece of meat.
Think "Last Year at Marienbad," the moon like a pear— the shape of a question.
Through the wide-open windows the curtains are sucked outside and flapping in the rain, and there's a moon, a glaring-white moon like a beacon, some kind of crazy eye peering into Scoot Campos's soul, like, How ya doin', Scoot?
