Sentence examples for prize specimen from inspiring English sources

In The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of JMW Turner (Viking £25), Franny Moyle studies a prize specimen.

When the family is exiled to an uncompromising island by a scientific scandal, the father dies in suspicious circumstances and Faith investigates with help from his prize specimen.

Currie had been trying for more than two years to get his prize specimen, the Carolina Reaper, recognized by Guinness, to no avail.

Perhaps the prize specimen is Vincent A. Buddy Cianci Jr.r., the mayor of Providence, R.I., who was convicted last summer of conspiring to solicit bribes for city contracts and was sentenced to five years and four months in prison.

Apart from Piltdown, he cheated a fellow fossil collector out of his prize specimen, and cheated the Sussex Archaeological Society out of its premises before marrying a wealthy widow.

When Kirstenbosch put up for auction a sucker from its prize specimen of Encephalartos woodii, it fetched a price of 89,000 rand (£8,347) equivalent to around 1,700 rand (£159.45) per centimetre of the plant's circumference.

He uses rubber molds of prize specimens to turn out white blanks that he sells wholesale.

Mr. Anderson presents each of these characters -- and several more -- with the fastidious care of a collector arranging prize specimens on a shelf.

This may not sound like much of an achievement, but after chewing my way through several schools of desiccated, flavorless grilled sardines all over the city, I knew that these prize specimens were heaven-sent.

His theft of the prize specimens of a Brazilian herpetologist; caught with her snakes dead in his freezer, he blames the language barrier, claiming he thought she'd granted permission.

In Kent, Ms Howard hatches her prize specimens in her airing cupboard before transferring them to her winter growing quarters, where the snails kept in plastic storage crates are fed on a diet of cereal, dried milk and powdered chalk.