Word info Synonyms

moths

Meaning

of Moth

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like. Carrie Fisher

Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words. Douglas Coupland

We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it! Anne Sexton

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Knowledge comes to a warrior, floating, like specks of gold dust, the same dust that covers the wings of moths. So for a warrior, knowledge is like taking a shower, or being rained on by specks of dark gold dust. Carlos Castaneda

There's no iron so hard that rust won't fret it; and there's no cloth so fine that moths won't eat it. Scottish Proverb