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
• 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
• 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 pair published the first report of a living C. cooki specimen last week in ZooKeys.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
• Roughly 5 percent of the specimens, or 21 teeth, had chips.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
• 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
• The Okeanos captures footage, water samples and even living specimens from the seabed.
  — Andy Lusk, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2023
• 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
• View the park’s collection of specimens at the nature center and learn about the clues skulls can give scientists.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2024
• And for the week that ended Nov. 25, about 8% of specimens tested for flu at L.A. County labs were positive for the virus, up from about 7% the prior week.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• At least 20 feet high, the massive specimen hangs over the windmill and a small enclosure with a water tank and concrete well.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
• For Eliot’s gaze is fixed not on the heavens above but on the specimens of humanity before her.
  — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2023
• Youngsters and their parents can discover and explore the seas of the world and more than 6,000 specimens armed with only a flashlight.
  — Devorah Lev-Tov, Robb Report, 25 June 2023
• The fish-out-of-water hook is gone, as is Giselle’s identity as an overly nice specimen of a vanquished world.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Nov. 2022
• Thanks to these specimens and the researchers studying them now, the discovery of these bees means new frontiers for taxonomists.
  — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• The discovery was not far from where the first two specimens were found by a beekeeper in early August.
  — Drew Kann, ajc, 28 Aug. 2023
• With their spindly bodies and bulbous domes, the specimens are the spitting image of the quintessential alien.
  — Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2023
• Most of the specimens come from military service members who did not consent to the use of their tissue for research.
  — James Bandler, ProPublica, 26 July 2023
• There have been only about 15 specimens of creatures that predate dinos and crocodiles in the fossil record to date — most of them found in the past two decades.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
• Try it near a sliding glass door or in a cool entryway as a dramatic specimen plant.
  — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2023
• The dinosaur, a specimen of Edmontosaurus, shows signs that the body was exposed to scavengers and the elements for weeks or months after death.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• Those were summer sightings, though, of smaller specimens than what Schwartz saw.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2024
• Also, young specimens are better than mature ones, which can be tough.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 11 May 2023
• In addition to the throat swab, also obtain a nasal swab to capture as many specimens as possible.
  — Health Editorial Team, Health, 30 Oct. 2023
• The journalist testified during the hearing that the specimens were a sign that humanity is not alone in the universe.
  — Jeffrey Clark, Fox News, 14 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024