Sentence examples for selling specimens from inspiring English sources

When a man is a divorced part-time drummer in an over-the-hill rock band, supporting himself partly by selling specimens to a sperm bank, there are ways for his life to get better.

But in the last 2 years, private collectors have begun selling specimens from the wild.

In the next decade, Wallace traveled on to collect in the Indo-Australian Archipelago, selling specimens to many scientists.

Melting permafrost yielded a treasure trove of mammoths, wooly rhinos, and lions and as a result, bone-prospectors are making a living finding and selling specimens to private collectors and scientific institutions.

Ricketts made a modest living as a professional biologist by preparing and selling specimens of intertidal fauna to laboratories and universities from his small lab in Cannery Row, and Steinbeck spent many hours at the lab in Ricketts' company.

He had received no money from his agent in England (who was to sell specimens Bates shipped back from the Amazon).

And during a time when many museums are financially squeezed, the insistence of commercial collectors that they'd really like to sell specimens to research institutions where the fossils will be properly conserved and used to communicate science to the public – they really do claim this is their goal – is disingenuous.

Tip-off: When a vendor grows only a small amount of a crop, but at the farmers market sells specimens that appear to be of uniform size and appearance or look like they have been waxed, that is a tipoff that they may have been commercially packed, and may not have come from his farm.

While a number of garden centers sell specimens ready for transplanting, bell peppers are relatively easy to grow from seed.

Wallace and Bates signed on with an agent, Samuel Stevens, who taught them taxidermy and species preservation, planned their itinerary to accord with the needs of collectors, sent them bottles and cash when they ran out, and advertised their findings in specialized journals, selling their specimens to institutions like the British Museum and Kew Gardens, as well as to wealthy amateurs.

Neither had much money, so they determined to fund themselves by collecting and selling fine specimens of birds and insects.