SPECIMEN in a Sentence
Learn SPECIMEN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
59 example sentences for SPECIMEN, such as:
1. They collected a urine specimen for analysis.
2. He has a collection of rare insect specimens.
3. They took blood and urine specimens for analysis.
4. Astronauts have brought back specimens of rock from the moon.
5. The museum displays the specimen of ancient Chinese porcelain.
2. He has a collection of rare insect specimens.
3. They took blood and urine specimens for analysis.
4. Astronauts have brought back specimens of rock from the moon.
5. The museum displays the specimen of ancient Chinese porcelain.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SPECIMEN
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specimen
n. a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes
n. an example regarded as typical of its class
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1 A poor specimen he was; afraid to stick up for his own beliefs--just as she was afraid, of her husband.
2 Connie really wondered at this queer, melancholy specimen of extraordinary success; it was said he had an income of fifty thousand dollars from America alone.
3 Freed from that he would have been as agreeable a specimen of rustic manhood as one would often see.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
4 On Egdon Heath Sunday proper did not begin till dinner-time, and even then it was a somewhat battered specimen of the day.
5 Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey.
6 Some one wanted to learn to imitate your writing, and had to procure a specimen of it first.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
Context Highlight In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
7 My friend took the lady's ungloved hand, and examined it with as close an attention and as little sentiment as a scientist would show to a specimen.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
Context Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
8 There was a sound upon the stairs, and our door was opened to admit as fine a specimen of manhood as ever passed through it.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
9 The Psychologist leant forward to see, holding out his hand for a specimen.
10 If you'll stop to lunch I'll prove you this time travelling up to the hilt, specimen and all.
11 She was magnificently a specimen of the illiterate divorcee of forty made up to look thirty, clever, and alluring.
12 But you must not suppose from this specimen of his sermonizings that he ever flew into downright passions with his congregation.
13 But some specimen bones of it being taken across the sea to Owen, the English Anatomist, it turned out that this alleged reptile was a whale, though of a departed species.
14 By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex.
15 I thought she was rather a funny specimen in the Jim Crow line.
Example Sentence:
1 They collected a urine specimen for analysis.
2 A former Chicagoan killed the lion on a safari, which is presumably how the specimen came to Chicago.
3 The museum displays the specimen of ancient Chinese porcelain.
4 They were thrilled to discover a perfectly preserved specimen of Roman pottery.
5 They took blood and urine specimens for analysis.
6 He has a collection of rare insect specimens.
7 Astronauts have brought back specimens of rock from the moon.