Sentence examples for specimen of it from inspiring English sources

On Molokai, for example, they recorded hearing a rail, but there is no specimen of it.

If we are indeed surrounded by cultural ruin, then Hitchens is a fine specimen of it: one of those manic preachers who have been shouting so long that they can no longer hear any voice apart from their own.

Ripley collected a new subspecies of babbler on this jaunt, named it Actinodura egertoni lewisi, or Lewis's bar-winged babbler, and presented a stuffed specimen of it to Lewis, who gave it a place on the mantelpiece in his Walpole library at Farmington, Connecticut, where he occasionally contemplates it with mixed feelings.

However, its discovery dates to 1770, when the Dutchman Arnout Vosmaer (1720 1799) described a specimen of it as a type of sloth.

No matter what it has, it arguably is lacking some of what it should have as a specimen of its type, and it certainly lacks what other things not of its kind possess.

We know little about the relationship between the technological or morphological integrity of type A and its production complexity or range of materials from which specimens of it were made, i.e., its tendency toward variation and change.

Scientists have said it could be the best preserved specimen of its type.

Its immediate sequel will offer a census of all known copies (the first attempted since Sir Sidney Lee's in 1902, and a good deal more ambitious in scope), and, as the definitive source of information about the condition, provenance, binding and whereabouts of each extant specimen of F1, it will presumably be seized on at once as the bible of the up-market contract book thief.

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.

I contend that "The 21 Absolute Worst Things in the World" is an ingenious specimen of thisness, and it also partakes in another quality of great literature: it points out that lonely experiences of aggravation (dunking a big cookie in a glass that turns out to be too small, fitted sheets that slip off a mattress) are actually universally shared.

As that OTU contains five D. humeralis and only this one "outlier" specimen of D. diastatus it may safely be assumed that this D. diastatus specimen is another case of misidentification.