Sentence Examples

1. I covered it with old clothes that smelled of dust and moth balls.
2. A moth fluttered through the air and disappeared into a corner.
3. Nothing could be heard in that large chamber but the wing-whisper of a little moth, which was fluttering to its death about the candles.
4. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal.
5. She could sense the protectiveness he felt for her, and it drew her to him like a moth to a flame.
6. Had drawn me here, like the flickering flame of a candle lures the moth to its fiery demise.
7. The competitive stakes were high because the gecko that captured each moth got to eat it all.
8. His grey clothes and jerky, zigzag, irregular progress made him not unlike some huge moth himself.
9. The windows were curtainless, and the yellow moonlight, flooding in through the diamond panes, enabled one to see even colours, whilst it softened the wealth of dust which lay over all and disguised in some measure the ravages of time and the moth.
10. I learned at the British Museum that he was a recognized authority upon the subject, and that the name of Vandeleur has been permanently attached to a certain moth which he had, in his Yorkshire days, been the first to describe.