Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: moths
IPA transcription: [m'ɔθs]
Usage examples
  • Like splendor-winged moths about a taper
  • "Well, then, and the Butterflies and the Moths.
  • Still, if you have the Butterflies, you can't leave out the Moths."
  • Let's see--the Fireflies, Butterflies, Moths. The Bees must come, I suppose."
  • "For my part, I can't conceive how the Moths can live as they do," said Miss Katy, with a face of disgust.
  • The bright colours of many butterflies and of some moths are specially arranged for display, so that they may be readily seen.
  • There's such an everlasting tribe of those Moths; and if you invite dull people they're always sure all to come, every one of them.
  • A house goes to ruin more rapidly if uninhabited than with a careful tenant; clothing is destroyed more quickly by moths than by wear.
  • Hence the lower surface of the wings being brighter than the upper surface in certain moths is not so anomalous as it at first appears.
  • The Saturniidae include some of the most beautiful of all moths, their wings being decorated, as in our British Emperor moth, with fine ocelli; and Mr. T.W.