Sentence examples for be a specimen of from inspiring English sources

About the same time, Elliott discovered part of another sauropod skeleton, which turned out to be a specimen of a species called Diamantinasaurus matildae.

That's the lesson that sneaks up on you in Dennis Kelly's "Taking Care of Baby," a crafty little play that purports to be a specimen of "verbatim" theater.

One young woman assumed a yoga position and meditated; she took "The Place" to be a specimen of ambient music, the kind of thing you can bliss out to, and she wasn't entirely mistaken.

In this way of thinking, there was no room in the human lineage for the Neanderthals of Europe or the Java Man, found just before the turn of the century and later determined to be a specimen of a direct human ancestor.

Nevermind that Gawande seems to be a specimen of inordinate achievement, he still provided a model I could recognize.

The article does include the caveat that it might actually be a specimen of Yanornis.

It's a specimen of managed democracy.

Built in the 1930s, this neo-Classical hall is a specimen of sorts.

He is a specimen of human endurance, able to run a full ninety minutes at near-top speed.

But what is most interesting about the flag-raising image is that it was a specimen of popular art, that it was not a painting or a statue.

"Spartacus," about the fabled slave revolt, is a specimen of socialist realism, and it shows all the stupidities endemic to that style — notably, overemphasis.