The moon shone brightly in the dark sky.

Meaning: The moon was shining very brightly in the night sky.

Choice of Words: Shone means to emit light. Brightly means with a lot of light. In means within or inside something. Dark sky is the sky at night. When you put them together, the sentence means that the moon was emitting a lot of light in the sky at night.

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