moltin a sentence
- The Weingartners were apparently stupid people with a constantly molting Saumensch of a cat.† (source)
- Within a minute, however, Neville had molted, and once his feathers had fallen off, he reappeared looking entirely normal.† (source)
- "Distress can push a bird straight into a molting, and we wouldn't want that!† (source)
- The molting pink feathers are tawdry as carnival dolls and some of the starry sequins have come off.† (source)
- When their egg production begins to drop, the hens will be "force-molted" -- starved of food, water, and light for several days in order to stimulate a final spurt of egg laying before their life's work is done.† (source)
- You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted or believed in.† (source)
- The smell of molting snakeskin seared my nostrils.† (source)
- Here was this twenty-three-year-old American, who looked as though he was still molting adolescence, handsome enough but too pale and gangly and boyish-looking to be called dishy, and she thought, "How does he know what to say to me that would be comforting?"† (source)
- The first thing he noticed was that the gull's head was molting and turning white, though a dark brown patch remained behind each eye.† (source)
- I'd rather you were as ragged as a molting deer than have you decapitate yourself for the sake of a close shave.† (source)
- Words run up the bridge of the nose and across the forehead, certain headlines visible or halfway visible, like BEAUTY REMEDY and TRAGEDY STRIKES, and little scraps of paper are unfurling from various places on her face, like she's molting.† (source)
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- The paper battles rage through the mails onto the desks of busy politicians, while back in the chicken yard one hawk after another circles overhead till the chickens are unable to come out of hiding and their neck feathers molt from the permanent crick.† (source)
- All the paint was peeling, and the house looked as if it were molting.† (source)
- It was attached to a demon that looked like a massive molting parrot with tentacles exploding out from where its wings should have been.† (source)
- The window displayed a pyramid of slabs in brownish-purple jackets, inscribed: The Vulture Is Molting.† (source)
- After birth the Young were moved to a creche where they went through a series of moltings over twenty years and then were released as adults.† (source)
- At a tender age he had developed mange, or leprosy, or some other such infantile disease, and had lost all his hair, never to recover it — a tragedy which may have had a bearing on the fact that, when I knew him, he had already devoted fifteen years of his life to a study of the relationship between summer molt and incipient narcissism in pocket gophers.† (source)
- The storm left the sky thin and dappled gray, like a molted snakeskin.† (source)
- A mile more: of chastising thorns, burrs and briers that catch at our clothes; of rusty pine needles brilliant with gaudy fungus and molted feathers.† (source)
- Exit Molts.† (source)
- Their bodies were covered in molting feathers, and their wings were tipped with tiny, shriveled hands.† (source)
- It so happened that Bluebell was the first through into the Honeycomb; and for many days afterward he was still improving upon his imitation of Captain Fiver at the head of his crowd of Efrafan prisoners—"like a tomtit rounding up a bunch of molting jackdaws," as he put it.† (source)
- He was inclined to be surly and short, and once, when Bluebell remarked that he thought Meester Pigvig's fur cap was molting in sympathy for absent friends, he showed a flash of his old sergeant-major spirit and cuffed and abused him twice round the Honeycomb, until Holly intervened to save his faithful jester from further trouble.† (source)
- Grandma Fontaine, withered, wrinkled and yellow as an old molted bird, was leaning on her cane, and behind her were Sally Munroe Fontaine and Young Miss Fontaine.† (source)
- Joad could see it ahead of him, its poor branches curving over the way, its load of leaves tattered and scraggly as a molting chicken.† (source)
- Joad had moved into the imperfect shade of the molting leaves before the man heard him coming, stopped his song, and turned his head.† (source)
- The evening light was on the fields, and the cotton plants threw long shadows on the ground, and the molting willow tree threw a long shadow.† (source)
- For her, just outside the door of the concert hall, lay the black pond with the cattle-tracked bluffs; the tall, unpainted house, with weather-curled boards; naked as a tower, the crook-backed ash seedlings where the dishcloths hung to dry; the gaunt, molting turkeys picking up refuse about the kitchen door.† (source)
- [40] Many of these transformations were afterward abandoned, but a large number survived, for example, /climbed/ for /clomb/ as the preterite of /to climb/, and /melted/ for /molt/ as the preterite of /to melt/.† (source)
- …(to run the—) gauntlet glamor glamour good-by good-bye gram gramme gray grey harbor harbour honor honour hostler ostler humor humour inclose enclose indorse endorse inflection inflexion inquiry enquiry jail gaol jewelry jewellery jimmy (burglar's) jemmy labor labour laborer labourer liter litre maneuver manoeuvre medieval mediaeval meter metre misdemeanor misdemeanour mold mould mollusk mollusc molt moult mustache moustache neighbor neighbour neighborhood neighbourhood net (adj.† (source)
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