How to Use specimen in a Sentence

specimen

noun

• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The specimen is 10 feet tall and 22 feet long, according to Sotheby's.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 8 July 2022
• This specimen has not yet been given a nickname; the new (unidentified) owner will get to pick the moniker of their choice.
  — Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 1 Aug. 2022
• If a specimen is taken from the nose, the method of testing is referred to as a nasopharyngeal swab.
  — Sherry Christiansen Updated, Verywell Health, 3 Aug. 2023
• Grow them as specimen plants, hedges, borders, or screens.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2024
• British naturalists traveled all over the world during the roughly 400 years of the British Empire and brought home natural specimens for study.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
• Of course, natural variation in fall leaf color exists, so look for the brightest specimens when shopping in autumn.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024