Example Sentences
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But he had not himself, at that stage, fully pupated himself into a committed Salafi jihadist.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2011
Thus the Technical Alliance was transmogrified into Technocracy and Howard Scott, Greenwich Village character, pupated into the Technocrat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Different caterpillars developed on different timetables, however: some became adults within weeks, some pupated the entire winter.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
When the fly eggs hatched, its larvae fed on the moth pupa, pupated into flies, and flew away.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
Two days later it stopped travelling, and pupated on the top of the now hardened earth in the bucket that contained the other two.
From Moths of the Limberlost by Stratton-Porter, Gene
