Sentence examples for specimens home from inspiring English sources

We visited Jekka McVicar's herb farm in the spring and brought a few specimens home to see how they do in the garden.

But unlike birders, say, or train spotters, if you are interested in shells you don't necessarily need a lightweight field guide — you can take your specimens home for study.

If Charles Darwin hadn't been able to bring specimens home and mount them, Ms. Milgrom writes, "he never would have qualified for the position of naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle".

Take your specimens home.

Observe and take photos or videos, but do not take any specimens home with you.

Moved and impressed, Mütter vowed to amass his own medical specimens back home, as a teaching aid to his students.

For her earlier productions, Potter was able to observe the species concerned in the wild, and kept specimens at home as pets and models.

Women were asked to collect a self-collected specimen at home and return it to the clinic.

The tests of the nursing home specimens, conducted in British Columbia and at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, are extremely preliminary.

Cartier had hoped to discover precious gems and minerals, as the Spaniards had done in Mexico and Peru, but the mineral specimens he sent home were worthless; indeed, "false as a Canadian diamond" became a common French expression.

Later, Alexander the Great sent home specimens from his wars in north Africa and the east, and successive armies transported plants into their new territories: the Romans sowing wheat, corn, barley and olives to feed their armies; Muslims spreading orchard fruits like sour oranges, lemons, limes and apricots, and showy flowers – most famously at the Alhambra palace in the Spanish city Granada.