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Specimen in sentence

38 examples of Specimen in a sentence

So I just bought one specimen of everything which was sold on the roadside.
Please note it's a museum specimen, but there's no chance you'll get the avian flu.
Every old curator who'd been in that museum had seen this wonderful specimen, put their hand in the jar, pulled it out and thought, "Wow, look at that," plop, dropped it back in the jar, contaminating this specimen.
Now, this is a specimen of the Nanopatch.
We're all familiar with the macro impact of urbanization, climate change, resource exploitation, but when that one last plant — or animal for that matter — when that very last specimen has disappeared from the face of this Earth, we would have lost an entire subset of the Earth's biology, and with it, important plants with medicinal potential or which could have ingredients that would speak to the cosmetic, nutrition, pharma, and even the ethno-veterinary sectors, be gone forever.
A specimen from here in Brazil tipped the scale at 201 pounds.
We have to treat this specimen with a chemical to kind of loosen up all the molecules from each other, and then, when we add water, that swellable material is going to start absorbing the water, the polymer chains will move apart, but now, the biomolecules will come along for the ride.
Of course the Monster (David Prowse, the man inside Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, replacing Sir Christopher Lee) created is an aggressive thing that obeys a few orders to get meaty rewards, but ultimately it is not a perfect specimen.
How does one start a commentary on such a perfect specimen of film making?
Speaking of such, don't expect to see a female specimen with large breasts.
I know what a “global citizen” looks like: I see a perfect specimen every time I pass a mirror.
When his multimillion-dollar demand was refused, he spoke of legal action and claimed the specimen was only on loan to the Museum.
Ukraine is a symptom, not a specimen.
It was an albatross of the finest species, a wonderful specimen of these open-sea fowl.
Unfortunately I couldn't fish up this wonderful specimen, and surely no other Mediterranean zoophytes would have been offered to my gaze, if, on the evening of the 16th, the Nautilus hadn't slowed down in an odd fashion.
Sheer chance had placed us in the presence of this squid, and I didn't want to lose this opportunity to meticulously study such a cephalopod specimen.
The race of blacks of which Caesar was a favorable specimen is becoming very rare.
"I call on Dr. Sitgreaves for a specimen of the style he admires."
There sat the man who had traced to their source the mighty ponds of Hampstead, and agitated the scientific world with his Theory of Tittlebats, as calm and unmoved as the deep waters of the one on a frosty day, or as a solitary specimen of the other in the inmost recesses of an earthen jar.
'Here you are, sir,' shouted a strange specimen of the human race, in a sackcloth coat, and apron of the same, who, with a brass label and number round his neck, looked as if he were catalogued in some collection of rarities.
'There,' said Sam, throwing in the last carpet-bag, 'there they are!''Yes,' said the fat boy, in a very satisfied tone, 'there they are.''Vell, young twenty stun,' said Sam, 'you're a nice specimen of a prize boy, you are!''Thank'ee,' said the fat boy.
This last man was an admirable specimen of a class of gentry which never can be seen in full perfection but in such places-- they may be met with, in an imperfect state, occasionally about stable-yards and Public-houses; but they never attain their full bloom except in these hot-beds, which would almost seem to be considerately provided by the legislature for the sole purpose of rearing them.
It was a magnificent specimen of the jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I have ever seen.
They were three days on their journey, and Marianne's behaviour as they travelled was a happy specimen of what future complaisance and companionableness to Mrs. Jennings might be expected to be.
Sometimes he might irretrievably injure a specimen by his too great ardour in handling it; but still he united the genius of a true geologist with the keen eye of the mineralogist.
To have in one's possession a living specimen is a happy event for a naturalist."
But in the presence of this specimen to doubt would be to insult science.
But I will go further in my deductions, and I will affirm that this specimen of the human family is of the Japhetic race, which has since spread from the Indies to the Atlantic.
Cyrus Harding proposed that they should return to the western shore of the lake, where the day before he had noticed the clayey ground of which he possessed a specimen.
The next day, the 21st of April, Cyrus Harding accompanied by Herbert, went to look for the soil of ancient formation, on which he had already discovered a specimen of ore.