Sentence examples for specimen that is from inspiring English sources

It can if it's the Corlear Sycamore, a magnificent specimen that is 87 feet high, 49 inches wide and more than 180 years old.

"It does not only contribute new fossil material to a period for which very little is preserved, but it contributes a new specimen that is astonishingly complete for its age".

This field, taxonomy, relies on written descriptions and drawings of a "type specimen" that is an average representation for an entire species, or taxon, and that type specimen is carefully preserved in a museum.

The perfect white shirt is something of a holy grail for fashion followers – untold time has been spent in pursuit of a specimen that is not too stiff and starchy, but doesn't err across the line into blousey territory.

Smith talks lovingly of the great fish that live in the lake, such as Seascale, an 18kg (40lb) specimen that is hauled out around twice a year, and Nigel's Fish – named, prosaically, after an angler called Nigel who first caught it.

Just a few months ago, the museum even put on permanent display the skeleton of Sophie the Stegosaurus, a crown jewel of a specimen that is by far the best preserved and most complete fossil of this famous plate-backed dinosaur ever found.

A hiker from Vancouver, British Columbia, wrapped his arms around a small Blue Lake specimen that was bent nearly double.

Then he removed the original specimen that was the subject of the Nature paper.

"That would have been a perfect tooth," he said, smiling and holding up a large specimen that was sheared in half.

But no one in Latin America had found a wild-living specimen that was carrying the virus.

"In my experience, I've never seen a single specimen that was made by the scientific community to get more publicity," says Mark Norell, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History.