Sentence examples for a sort of specimen from inspiring English sources
The entire building serves as a sort of specimen case, a framework for pondering the natural world while straining to disturb it as little as possible.
When photographs of plants first became common in the late 19th century, botanists saw them as a form of botanical illustration rather than as a sort of herbarium specimen and so stored them in botanical libraries rather than as part of the formal herbaria (Simpson and Barnes, 2008).
Stanford studied me for a moment, as if I were an odd sort of specimen, and then replied, "I just hope they don't squeeze the life out of the last engine in the economy that's got any gas left".
Environmentalists tout a sort-of pagan eschatology.
Buck's wives seemed another sort of specimen collection.
He worked with all sorts of specimens, from protozoa, to fireflies to amino acids.
In one specimen, Dr. Reynolds found traces of the rare gas xenon 129 ,a sort of fossil of the extinct radioactive iodine 129.
A sort of Indiana Jones of plants, Mr. Kirkham also travels the world to hunt down exceptional specimens.
And the specimens in question were found not in East Africa, which has become synonymous with a sort of paleoanthropological Garden of Eden, but clear on the other side of the continent and the Sahara in Morocco.
Rodney's is a sort of convivial pub, with a long dining bar on one side, wooden booths on the other, and crustaceous specimens all over the walls (the entrance, in an office building, is easy to miss).
