How to Use "molt" with Example Sentences
- 1. Like other penguins , it undergoes an annual molt , replacing all its feathers in a few weeks .
- 2. At the end of their laying cycle they are either slaughtered or forced to molt by water and food deprivation , which shocks them into another layer cycle .
- 3. They are active at night and live for many years , and females molt after maturity .
- 4. This is the last instar larval stage , which describes the times between each molt ( after an insect sheds its exoskeleton in order to grow ) until the insect reaches sexual maturity .
- 5. The peptides eclosion hormone ( eh ) and ecdysis-triggering hormone ( eth ) trigger ecdysis behaviors and other physiological changes which occur at the end of the molt .