moltin a sentence
molt as in: to molt
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The Weingartners were apparently stupid people with a constantly molting Saumensch of a cat.† (source)
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Distress can push a bird straight into a molting, and we wouldn't want that!† (source)
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The molting pink feathers are tawdry as carnival dolls and some of the starry sequins have come off.† (source)
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"I forgot — it was the custard creams we hexed —" Within a minute, however, Neville had molted, and once his feathers had fallen off, he reappeared looking entirely normal.† (source)
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The smell of molting snakeskin seared my nostrils.† (source)
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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)
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I'd rather you were as ragged as a molting deer than have you decapitate yourself for the sake of a close shave.† (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)
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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)
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Exit Molts† (source)
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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)
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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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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)
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The storm left the sky thin and dappled gray, like a molted snakeskin.† (source)
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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)
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[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)
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