FOSSIL in a Sentence
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20 example sentences for FOSSIL, such as:
1. The fossils may be a million years old.
2. Marine sponges have a long fossil record.
3. It includes discrete identifiable trace fossils.
4. You have to follow these obsolete fossilized ways.
5. 'Mostly fossil,' the manager had remarked disparagingly.
2. Marine sponges have a long fossil record.
3. It includes discrete identifiable trace fossils.
4. You have to follow these obsolete fossilized ways.
5. 'Mostly fossil,' the manager had remarked disparagingly.
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Meanings and Examples of FOSSIL
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fossil
n. the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil
n. someone whose style is out of fashion
Classic Sentence:
1 Holding his fossil in front of him, Mr. Hardcastle marched off.
2 It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago.
3 'Mostly fossil,' the manager had remarked disparagingly.
4 It was no more fossil than I am; but they call it fossil when it is dug up.
5 And though none of them precisely answer to any known species of the present time, they are yet sufficiently akin to them in general respects, to justify their taking rank as Cetacean fossils.
6 Here and there I found traces of the little people in the shape of rare fossils broken to pieces or threaded in strings upon reeds.
7 Cuvier, with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons flatter Moses.
8 This unweeting manner of performance is the true ring by which, in this refurbishing age, a fossilized survival may be known from a spurious reproduction.
Example Sentence:
1 Yesterday, I posted that the total budget of fossil fuel emissions we can ever emit is 1 trillion tones of Carbon.
2 Professor Mike Archer who led the team of fossil hunters says they've made some extraordinary discoveries.
3 Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will produce a 3 percent reduction in the density of Earth's outermost atmosphere by 2017.
4 The cities of San Francisco and Seattle have pulled their money out of fossil fuel companies, taking a climate divestment campaign from college campuses to local government.
5 That's a 40 percent increase over levels in 1750, before humans began burning fossil fuels in earnest.
6 The electricity industry consumes large amounts of fossil fuels.
7 Marine sponges have a long fossil record.
8 The scientist could visualize the fauna of the period by examining the skeletal remains and the fossils.
9 It includes discrete identifiable trace fossils.
10 The fossils appear to be an early form of seaweed washed up on a beach.
11 The fossils may be a million years old.
12 You have to follow these obsolete fossilized ways.