Sentence examples for a big specimen from inspiring English sources

"With a kilo of rhino horn selling for around $60,000 £35,0000), a big specimen can fetch $250,000," says Mr Breare.

At the pasta course — either spaghetti with caponata or sweet-corn ravioli, which was actually just one big specimen — a waiter had a grammatical question.

The risk of course is that such an important and iconic (and let's face it, big) specimen would no longer have an obvious spot in the halls of the museum and might end up in storage for a long time, perhaps indefinitely, which would be a very sad fate.

In the eighth song, "Bird Code," Ms. Monk played a big, squawking specimen; the piece seemed an odd deviation from all the bird song (mostly, more cultivated) being heard in the festival's series devoted to music of Messiaen, which ends tomorrow.

The other opener that stands out is the shrimp cocktail: four big specimens escorted by a horseradish-laced cocktail sauce.

Don't let these big specimens discourage you from trying them in your own little backyard.

In the two big specimens (>230 mm) unable to make sound, the ratio of myofibrils was significantly higher than in all other sonic muscles and close to the one measured in the epaxial muscle.

A candidate may be hidden in the Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement in Leuven, Belgium, which houses a big collection of specimens of bananas and plantains (close relatives that must be cooked before eating).Modifying the Cavendish is another, perhaps quicker, approach.

At 10, the crew reels in its biggest specimen yet.

But if the estimates hold, the squid would be 330 pounds heavier than the next biggest specimen ever found.

The new specimen measures more than three feet in length; the biggest specimen previously known was about two feet long.