Moonlight painted silver trails on the rippling waves.
Meaning: This describes the moonlight reflecting on the moving waves, creating a shimmering and beautiful scene.
Choice of Words: Moonlight is the light from the moon, painted means created an image or design, silver is a shiny, white-gray color, trails are paths or marks left behind, and rippling means moving in small waves. Waves are ridges of water that move across a body of water. This sentence personifies moonlight as an artist creating silver trails on the water.
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