Sentence examples for specimens were preferred from inspiring English sources

Specimens were preferred over photographs, because a species in hand can be more easily identified.

Fecal specimens were preferred, but vomit samples were also accepted for virologic testing.

Young, straight, and undamaged specimens are preferred.

When collecting for the table, young specimens are preferred, as older ones "literally seethe with fat, agitated maggots and sag with so much excess moisture that they practically demand to be wrung out like a sponge!" Michael Kuo's 100 Edible Mushrooms (2007) rates the mushroom's edibility as "bad" and warns that dishes cooked with the mushroom will assume an unpleasant taste.

Pharyngeal specimens are preferred as cloacal shedding of Cp. psittaci is intermittent and, in contrast, the respiratory tract appears to be the last system to be cleared of infection.

Wherever possible, a 16-gauge biopsy needle and a specimen length of a minimum of 15 mm were preferred.

Shotguns with "dust" shot were preferred to reduce damage to the specimens.

Lower concentrations were preferred.

For specific clinical problems which require large tissue samples for analysis (e.g. classification of malignant lymphoma) larger specimens may be preferred.

While higher specimen numbers is preferred, many of the taxa of interest are rare, and ten of the largest international collections were visited to attain this sample.

One direction of maximum shear (specimen's length direction) is preferred, and circumferential fatigue cracks develop and propagate at significantly greater numbers of torsion load cycles.