Sentence examples for finest specimen from inspiring English sources

Dear Alvin, you were one of the finest specimen of mankind!

They reckon that George Washington is the finest specimen to have assumed office, despite paintings showing "a pear-shaped old man with narrow shoulders and matronly hips".

Noted physical educator Dudley Sargent of Harvard University examined Sandow and judged him to be the finest specimen of manhood he had seen.

Tomorrow at 2 p.m., "Great Trees of Wave Hill," a garden walk with Laurel Rimmer, who will point out the finest specimen trees in New York, including copper beech, Japanese umbrella pine and dawn redwood.

The New Yorker, June 28 , 1930 P. 7James Earl Fraser was commissioned in 1912 to design a new nickel, and selected for immortalization the finest specimen of buffalo he could find.

What makes this book such an interesting document is that it represents the current state of mind — I'm tempted to say the final word — of that generation of which Brodsky was the finest specimen.

He organizes a floral competition, in which all the kingdom's gardeners compete with their finest specimens.

Narasimha I (1238 64) built the Sun Temple (Surya Deula) of Konark, one of the finest specimens of Hindu architecture.

MANUFACTURED diamonds have become "as pure and nearly as big as the finest specimens hauled out of the ground," Ulrich Boser reports in Smithsonian magazine (smithsonianmag.com).

You can buy the entire alphabet for ¿4,500, 26 of the world's finest specimens of manhood - in poster format, of course.

An astronaut is the kind of person I'd feel comfortable putting forward if aliens landed and asked to see one of humanity's finest specimens.