Sentence examples for moult from high-quality English sources.

• They then moult.

• It was particularly associated with cold winter skies, for pigeons moult in summer, making feathers too weak to hold whistles.

• Of course birds evolved to take advantage of seasonal food abundances to feed their young, moult and re-grow feathers, lay down fat deposits, etc.

• It’s not just spring when birds are vulnerable but during the moult in summer and, in winter, residents like woodcock, snipe and waterfowl lose precious reserves when they’re forced needlessly to fly.

• Once a year, king penguins return to the cold Antarctic shores of South Georgia for a month-long moult.

• Dr Moult thinks that boosting this number could help screen drug candidates to see which are likely to bind well to a particular protein.

• Their winter plumage is black, grey and white but in spring they moult into their breeding plumage with a rich chestnut throat and belly and golden ear-tufts.

• Molt, also spelled Moult, biological process of molting (moulting)—i.e., the shedding or casting off of an outer layer or covering and the formation of its replacement.

Use moult in a sentence.

• AlphaFold 2 had an average score of 92.4—an accuracy that CASP’s founder, John Moult, who is a biologist at the University of Maryland, says is roughly comparable with what can be obtained by techniques like X-ray crystallography.

• Lots of birds moult around August time – their feathers are a bit tired and tatty after a busy year, and their winter colours then tend to be a little drabber as their priority then is to blend into their surroundings more, for protection – they don’t want to stand out to predators!

• "Even tiny rearrangements of these vital molecules can have catastrophic effects on our health, so one of the most efficient ways to understand disease and find new treatments is to study the proteins involved," said Dr John Moult of the University of Maryland, US, the chair of the panel of scientific adjudicators.