How to Use specimen in a Sentence

specimen

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  • The church is a magnificent specimen of baroque architecture.
  • Her dance partner is a superb physical specimen.
  • How many must be changed to make the specimen no longer a wolf but a dog?
    — Pat Shipman, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The tests must take a specimen from your nose or mouth.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The team that found the specimen says the leg belonged to a plant-eating thescelosaurus.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Entire fossil specimen of a cranial crest with the back of the head to the right.
    — NBC News, 20 Apr. 2022
  • By counting the rings, the team found the oldest specimen was 84 years old.
    — Alex Viveros, Science | AAAS, 17 June 2021
  • This is not the case with all of them, but with only the more perfect specimens.
    — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Ohio holds the record for largest pumpkin pie, with a specimen that weighed 3,699 pounds.
    — Ella Quittner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Eight or nine years ago, a specimen from London missed the plane.
    — Esther Landhuis, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2022
  • When a prime specimen was chosen, the men set off in a whaleboat rowed by a crew.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Once a rock wears away enough to expose a fossil, the specimen starts to erode with it.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Part of the issue is that most T. rex specimens are adults, with only a few subadults.
    — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • But one specimen, a 2-inch-long foot bone of a giant deer, stood apart.
    — New York Times, 10 July 2021
  • The latter is reputed to be one of the largest such specimens on the planet.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • Many of the specimens, like the one in Schreiber’s palm, were rufous hummingbirds.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The researchers will continue to study the rare specimen in even more depth.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The shape makes the weeping redbud a great specimen in any landscape.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2022
  • The pair published the first report of a living C. cooki specimen last week in ZooKeys.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The largest specimen of the species can be found in La Rinconada Gardens in Bolivia, with leaves of up to 10.5 feet in width.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 4 July 2022
  • The specimens of Shishania that the team studied are a few centimeters long and the spiky cones are made of chitin.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Roughly 5 percent of the specimens, or 21 teeth, had chips.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The discovery of such a specimen in the deep sea is unusual.
    — New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021
  • That specimen will be sent to the CDC to confirm the diagnosis.
    — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 May 2022
  • To plant nursery specimens in the ground or in a container, dig a hole about the same width and depth as the planting container.
    — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2023
  • Colleary doesn’t expect to find a full-bodied specimen of the swimming beast, which grew up to 30 feet long.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The case is then assigned to that date, rather than simply the specimen collection date.
    — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The Okeanos captures footage, water samples and even living specimens from the seabed.
    — Andy Lusk, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Below are some of the other most valuable specimens ever sold.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Light pruning is all that is needed to shape plants and is commonly all that is needed for larger specimens.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2024

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