Example sentences for: moth

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

  • She called it an army moth, because it had camouflage-like gray and green markings.

  • pit·y, cit·y, moth·er-in-law, etc.

  • Paul Gillmor, R.-Ohio, the classic Ripon Republican venerates Ronald Reagan (whose scrapes with "gypsy moth" Eastern Republican moderates during the 1980s are apparently forgotten) but tends to part company with the party on social issues such as abortion.

  • In his “Feather Report” of 27 October 1990, in The Times , Simon Barnes lists the following nicknames for the nightjar: fernowl, fen owl, jar-owl, churn-owl, goat-owl, goatsucker, nighthawk, dorhawk, moth hawk, wheelbird, puck bird, litch fowl , and gabble ratch , the last having its origins in the Norse meaning `corpse hound,' (similar to litch fowl , which means `corpse fowl').

  • The second name, the (special) name, modesta , means modest in the sense of free from ostentation (Cynthia was struck by the moth's drab garb).


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