How to Use molt in a Sentence

molt

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• Snakes molt as they grow, shedding the old skin and growing a larger new skin.
• One of the shrimp in the tank has molted and doubled in size.
  — Ben Raines | [e-mail], AL.com, 16 May 2017
• The same is true of adult birds that settle in an area to molt.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2020
• In the spring, the seals return to the same beaches to molt, shedding their fur and even some skin before spending the rest of the year in the ocean.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2014
• See another video of the same species molting, and learn more about the spider.
  — Amy Rankin, National Geographic, 16 May 2018
• Some snakes can molt to remove the fungus, others aren’t so lucky.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2017
• As the days warm up, more and more will make the journey up tree trunks to molt, find a mate, lay their eggs, then die soon after.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 25 May 2021
• On East, a molting monk seal smelled worse than sweaty, pungent gym socks.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• But, in the span of two to four weeks, each cicada in this brood will molt, eat and try to mate before dying.
  — Washington Post, 4 May 2021
• Adélies molt on floes far at sea and use ice as way stations to avoid predators between hunts.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• These survivors return to land to molt into their adult plumage.
  — Elizabeth Warkentin, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2021
• The whooping crane chick at the Milwaukee zoo is covered in light brown fuzz and has started to molt.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2019
• But in the cold Antarctic seas, the whales are apparently unable to molt.
  — Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 21 Feb. 2020
• But the outer layer of his skin molted from 70 percent of his body, and his body shut down in the same sequence that Ouchi’s had.
  — Patrick Malone, Science | AAAS, 29 June 2017
• These birds molt each year, replacing their feathers with a fresh set.
  — Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2017
• These nymphs will pop out of the ground, climb upward, then molt their nymphal case, just like a crab casting off an old exoskeleton.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2021
• The Weddell seals were already finished molting, so the scene was much cleaner.
  — Kasha Patel, Smithsonian, 13 July 2018
• Birds molt every year, so grimy feathers contained no more than a year’s worth of black carbon.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
• Across the beach, there’s a sleek gray Weddell seal lounging on his stomach who has finished molting.
  — Stephen Witt, WIRED, 25 June 2019
• East Siberian Nivkhs were observed to have clonked seals and sea lions with clubs, and killed rats, otters and molting birds with sticks.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• People with allergies are most at risk when bird cages or lofts are cleaned out, and during the time of year when birds molt and shed their feathers.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 18 Nov. 2019
• The lesions, which spread quickly across a snake's body from the disease, may dissipate by molting.
  — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2017
• Each stage of molting is called an instar, and some insects molt up to five times before moving onto the next stage.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2020
• Because birds molt their feathers each year, the amount of soot on each bird would be a snapshot of the black carbon in the atmosphere for the year it was collected.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Oct. 2017
• A mile more: of chastising thorns, burs and briers that catch at our clothes; of rusty pine needles brilliant with gaudy fungus and molted feathers.
  — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
• Soon after the chicks fledge, parents will begin molting.
  — Elissa Nuñez, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
• Penguins molt once a year, shedding their coats and replacing them with new feathers.
  — Ananya Panchal, SFChronicle.com, 4 June 2020
• The disparity could be an indicator of the birds' state of health, the researchers say, as healthy birds are both more likely to molt and remain in the air longer.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2016
• Seals molt annually, so the device falls off after a year.
  — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 26 May 2021
• Those larvae grow and molt in the fly's tissues before reaching an infective stage.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2019

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molt

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• Each summer the birds shed, or molt, their wing and tail feathers.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2018
• The whales spend their time in the river, which flows into the Hudson Bay, to give birth to calves, feed, and molt.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2022
• To gain, lose, molt, flower, fruit and more will happen again and again.
  — Holiday Mathis, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2021
• These Arctic-dwelling species rely on sea ice to pup, nurse and molt.
  — Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2021
• Soon, white reindeer will turn buff with spring, the molt beginning with a dark ring around the eye.
  — Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
• This is a once-in-17-years event where the insects burrow out of the ground, molt, reproduce and then die.
  — David J. Smith, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• Termites have five stages in their life cycle: egg, larva, nymph, molt, and adult.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 18 June 2023
• In winter, tens of thousands of the threatened Steller's eider sea ducks stay in Izembek and molt.
  — Author: Juliet Eilperin, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2018
• After the spring, their male gonads age and drop off in a single molt and an ovary develops.
  — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 28 June 2019
• There’s the annual molt, during which even the crows are disheveled and pencil-necked.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2017
• According to the team, the molts came from the larval ancestors of modern-day dermestids.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2023
• This spring, the 17-year cicadas of Brood X will emerge from underground, climb tree trunks and molt, leaving their crunchy shells behind.
  — Catherine McNeur, Scientific American, 9 May 2021
• One of the best known molt migrations in Europe involves the common shelduck.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2018
• Birds molt, for instance, shedding their worn feathers and growing new ones.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
• Nymphs molt into more nymphs, growing larger and sprouting wing buds until the final molt, when the adult emerges like a new, green leaf.
  — Sabrina Imbler, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Dec. 2022
• Back on the island, the massive male elephant seal hasn’t finished his annual molt yet.
  — Stephen Witt, WIRED, 25 June 2019
• Mallards and wood ducks have begun flying again after their molt.
  — Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
• These were kings, calmer and more aloof than the royals, going through their annual molt, their stumpy bodies a mess of patchy old plumage being pushed up and out by new growth.
  — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2021
• The new study suggests that not only killer whales, but all whales migrate to molt, the researchers report in Marine Mammal Science.
  — Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 21 Feb. 2020
• The lobster in question will start regrowing her missing claw before her next molt.
  — Michael Roppolo, CBS News, 6 June 2023
• In addition to hola and gràcies, bon día (good morning), si us plau (please), merci (thanks), and molt bó (very good, as in food) will be useful.
  — Sara McCarty, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2018
• After the molt, Clawdia’s new exoskeleton was not as solidly blue as before.
  — John Kuntz, cleveland, 13 Feb. 2021
• These headpieces grow taller with each molt, tapering into a tower of dead heads that can be nearly half as tall as the caterpillar is long.
  — Sabrina Imbler, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Dec. 2022
• After the megalopa phase, crabs molt another seven or eight times to transform into their crab shape.
  — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• Once out in the open, often after climbing high up in a tree, the cicadas molt, leaving the shell that once provided protection behind.
  — Dwight Weingarten, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2021
• The dark coloring is a result of the fresh exoskeleton forming underneath, which can be seen after the spider's molt.
  — National Geographic, 24 May 2017
• Unlike some birds that shed a few feathers at a time, penguins lose all their feathers at once during a process called catastrophic molt.
  — Elissa Nuñez, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
• That molt essentially wiped out the soot that had accumulated in their plumage.
  — Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2017
• These epic journeys, called pre-molt dispersals, are crucial for survival.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2018
• During a run of ideal weather earlier this month, the city began its molt from a sleepy seaside burg into its bustling summer form.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022

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