Example sentences for: metamorphosis

How can you use “metamorphosis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Seth Pecksniff could no more undergo a post-mortem metamorphosis than John Calvin.

  • The periodic pattern of eclosion (emergence of the adult at the end of metamorphosis) and the pattern of adult locomotion (Figure 1a,b) are classic examples of circadian rhythms, which are typically analyzed by application of periodogram functions [ 14 15 16 17 ] . Figure 1cand 1ddisplay examples of daily molecular rhythms for a whole fly and a pair of dissected wings, as reported in real time by luciferase-encoding DNA fused to regulatory sequences of the period (per) clock gene; these gene-product fluctuations have been analyzed using functions other than periodograms [ 10 18 ] . Drosophila rhythms are also evident on other time scales besides circa-24 hours.

  • The beautiful beaches of Acapulco Bay immediately lured Mexico City’s elite, and the metamorphosis began, from slumbering trading port into the “Pearl of the Pacific,” as the media came to know it in the 1930s.

  • metamorphosis the butchery of a prisoner, e.g., by the castration of males, removal of the breasts of females; a term used by some Latin-American prisoners.

  • Dublin’s food has undergone a metamorphosis.


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