moth

Example Sentences

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The third is almost like the moth to the flame.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2026

"Everyone else is like a moth to flame."

From Barron's • Nov. 8, 2025

A classic example often taught in high school biology classes is that of industrial melanism in the peppered moth, a British species tha looks, well, "peppered," with black dots on a mostly white background.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2025

A couple who bought a £32.5m mansion can hand it back and have most of their money returned after they found out it had a "severe moth infestation", a High Court judge has ruled.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2025

She carefully tended it, and weeks later, a huge, delicately patterned gray-and-white moth emerged from the pupa, the biggest she had ever seen.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman