Example sentences for: moby-

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

  • As Herman Melville once famously asked in Moby-Dick , why don't whales collapse under the pressure of all the water they swim under?

  • So Melville wrote Moby-Dick (1851) and John Buchan's autobiography was called Memory Hold-the-Door (1940), but Robertson Davies wrote Tempest Tost (1951), with no hyphen.

  • As his fellow Impressionists died one after the other--Pissarro in 1903, Cézanne in 1906, Degas in 1917, Renoir in 1919--Monet ended up, once again, like Ishmael, at the end of Moby-Dick : "Now I am the last survivor of the group," he sighed.


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