Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigDictionary
were samples
noun
A part of anything taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.
Exact(60)
Spread out on a table were samples.
There were squares of carpet on the floor – we thought they were samples and she was choosing a new one – they were samples, but she had got them free and was sticking them together to make a carpet.
On a nearby cooling table, there were samples of more than a dozen varieties of Green & Black's organic chocolates.
Fish from the lakes were also found to contain the insecticide residues; so were samples of plankton.
There were samples of leaves and moss, and a sprinkling of drawings, all collected in a handsome, linen-bound book.
No one onstage had spoken; the words were samples, but that didn't make them any less sincere.
Ringing the room were samples on mannequins, hangers, and tables, in stations organized by category: sweaters, knits, dresses, and so on.
From HOW many brains were samples taken posthumously as part of the study?
A few were samples drawn from stainless-steel tanks before bottling.
Last September, in the Journal of Virology, they reported that viruses from people infected in 2003 and 2004 were more deadly in mice and ferrets than were samples taken from 1997 victims.
Spread on the table were samples of garment finishings, one with a zipper encased in its seams, another with the zipper exposed.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com