573 examples of moth in sentences

Another moth-hunt, or some more of that 'stocks' business, I suppose.

Perhaps d'Aurelle, or whatever his name is, just blundered in, like a moth into a candle-flame.

Sometimes the owl and the moth and the beetle, and the bat and the cat and the rat, are all at work.

"I shall start at once to acquire merit which the moth cannot corrupt," I continued.

She had worshipped intellect, and now it had become her tyrant; and she was ready to give up every belief which she once had prized, to flutter like a moth round its fascinating brilliance.

But surely such tones are not worthy of flitting moth-like about the holy sorrow of a repentant woman!

He is on the ridge of the barn-roof, he is peeping into the dove-cote, he is in the garden under the currant-bushes, or chasing a spider or a moth under a cabbage-leaf; again he is on the roof of the shed, warbling vociferously; and all these manoeuvres and peregrinations have occupied hardly a minute, so rapid and incessant is he in his motions.

The modulation of his notes is similar to that of the common Robin, but his tones are sharper, and he sings in a very desultory manner, leaving off very frequently in the middle of a strain to seize a moth or a beetle.

Mary asked me to put moth balls in it.

Indeed, I should have said, if anything, that he was looking rather more moth-eaten than when I had seen him last.

decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear; corrosion, erosion; moldiness, rottenness; moth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus^, atrophy, collapse; disorganization; delabrement &c (destruction).

[Med.], moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew; dry rot; canker, cankerworm; cancer; torpedo; viper &c (evil doer) 913; demon &c 980.

[Med.], moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew; dry rot; canker, cankerworm; cancer; torpedo; viper &c (evil doer) 913; demon &c 980.

In short, he is the moth of liberal men's coats, the earwig of the mighty, the bane of courts, a friend and a slave to the trencher, and good for nothing but to be a factor for the devil. OF THE SLOTHFUL.

And while all this was happening, a certain paunchy little English Jew with moth-eaten hair and blotchy jowls the accredited head of a great labor union glared through his thick spectacles and nodded his perverse approval.

"Fearful of the Truth" They tried the moth-eaten device of arresting our witnesses for alleged perjury, hoping to discredit those witnesses thus in your eyes because they knew they couldn't discredit them in any regular nor legitimate way.

Woods, who four years ago had thrown over a fortune and exiled himself from his native land, rather than propose marriage to Margaret Hugonin, had no sooner come again into her presence and looked once into her perfectly fathomless eyes than he could no more have left her of his own accord than a moth can turn his back to a lighted candle.

"We're only a poor chuckle-headed moth who's been looking at a star too long.

"Where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.

Moth and rust, change and decay, sorrow and death cannot enter there.

For, ignore it as we may, the fact remains: those same holy lips which spoke of a place, "where neither moth nor rust doth consume," spoke likewise of another place, "where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

"If I were a schoolmaster, I'd have inscribed on the walls of every classroom: "Kill not the moth or butterfly, For the Last Judgment draweth nigh.

The only safe treasure is that laid up in heaven, where 'neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal,' "From the very earliest times the oak has been used for shipbuilding.

Still they must be renovated, and cleaned, and scrubbed, lest some luckless moth were hiding there, or some fly-speck perchance had fallen upon the glossy paint.

Old curtains, moth-eaten and ragged with age, but of a rich material, covered the windows.

573 examples of  moth  in sentences