Sentence examples for by a moth from inspiring English sources

It's not the most uproarious standup set you'll see: the biggest laugh came when Lawrence got hit by a moth.

Brooke Scott designs them, and the collection is called the Moth series because each scarf is inspired by a moth's wing.

The thick line shows the combined effect on mating success, parasitization and predation on the relative number of off-spring produced by a moth.

Portugal may have won the Euro 2016 soccer tournament in Paris on Sunday night, but the team's 1-0 victoverover host nation France is being upstaged by a moth.

— Poetry Foundation The woman with a tumor in her neck By Wendy Videlock has a moth in her palm, a river on her tongue, a scalpel in her boat, a lump in her throat, a gamble in her shoe, a fire in her den, a shadow in her flesh, a flutter in her breast, like everybody else.

Drawn like a moth by Philly's shining light, Will can only flutter at the glass and hope for some eventual tragedy.

For one sweet moment he sensed more than remembered the rhythmic moan of a turning wheel, the gentle shush-shush-shush of water splashing, a slant of silver moonlight, an intake of breath as soft as the noise made by the wings of a moth, but he couldn't conjure up the face of a girl.

1752 Benjamin Franklin electrocutes a moth by tying it to a kite that he floats aloft into an electrical storm.

The whole fungus, including a stroma emerged above the ground from an underground sclerotium covered by the exoskeleton of a moth larva (Fig. 1), is harvested for medicinal uses, usually as tonic to strengthen the body system and to regain energy after a serious illness (Pegler et al., 1994) but now for many other purposes.

Like a moth lured by a candle flame, I am drawn by the light coming into the west side of our building.

In "Bunny," an elderly rabbit is disturbed by a hairy moth while baking a cake.