specimen

Definition:
1. An example regarded as typical of its class.
2. A bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes.

Use 'specimen' in a sentence:

• 1. They classed two specimens together.
• 2. Data from the contaminated specimen cannot be used.
• 3. They were fine specimens of British youth!
• 4. Significant stenosis and hyalinosis in small arteries were observed in the specimen of brain, skin, and muscle.
• 5. You won't find a better specimen than that in a hurry.
• 6. Can you procure some specimens for me?
• 7. He has collected hundreds of rock specimens in the past few years.
• 8. The recent discovery of a pterosaur specimen covered in long, dense, and relatively thick hairlike fossil material was the first clear evidence that his reasoning was correct.
• 9. As soon as I saw this specimen, I was fascinated.
• 10. They had no backbone and were tiny - the new specimen is only an inch long.
• 11. Application of digital technology during blood specimen collection quality training for nurses.
• 12. The traveler brought back some specimens of the rocks from the mountains.
• 13. It turns out that this tree is also an urban specimen or rather has become one.
• 14. Collectors will pay$ 50,000 to$ 1 million for a rare specimen.
• 15. What a poor specimen that child is!
• 16. After all, the Sun has many more atoms of any element, say iron, than does a meteorite specimen, but the ratios of iron to silicon in the two kinds of matter might be comparable.
• 17. And sure enough, that's where we got the first specimen.
• 18. At this point, the specimen can be shattered by dousing it with sterilized warm saline.
• 19. He is a fine specimen of his class.
• 20. The specimen will become part of the museum's lepidoptera collection.
• 21. Good gracious, look at that specimen, will you?
• 22. The Slovene bank has printed a specimen bank note.
• 23. I found that there were these rings in every specimen except for the smallest.
• 24. The specimen, complete with surrounding rock, had been on display for the past 50 years at a museum in Poland, but amazingly no one had spotted the footprint.
• 25. His blood specimen has been sent to the hospital.
• 26. He's a prize specimen of the human race!
• 27. Place test specimen on the base surface.
• 28. There are some butterfly specimens in the museum.
• 29. Attached as guidance are two specimen letters that may be sent with the Notice.
• 30. The problem before us is where we can find specimens.
• 31. This paper introduces the major source of birds specimens collection.
• 32. 'This specimen hasn't been seen or touched in 50 years, nobody knew of its existence.
• 33. Look at me. Pretty healthy specimen, ain't I?
• 34. This particular specimen has been dated to about 160 million years ago.
• 35. Each specimen is carefully dissected.
• 36. Good gracious, look at that specimen will you?
• 37. Auxiliary Control System for Irradiation Specimen Automatic Transmission Based on Configuration Software.
• 38. The mirrorwing flyingfish (above) was Tule's favorite specimen of all.
• 39. Solex Typeface Specimen Book.
• 40. His breeder told Britain's Telegraph, "He is a perfect specimen."
• 41. Ore specimens are on display in showcases.
• 42. This is a close-up of a living red seaweed specimen (Martensia sp).
• 43. If evolution had been a continuous, gradual process, one might expect that almost every fossil specimen would be slightly different from every year.
• 44. A salesman at a pet market shows off a specimen.
• 45. If your urine specimen shows the presence of bacteria, you'll be prescribed antibiotics.
• 46. Job applicants have to submit a specimen of handwriting.
• 47. 200,000 specimens of fungus are kept at the Komarov Botanical Institute.
• 48. The snake has been named Silver Boa because it is metal-colored and the first specimen found was climbing a silver palm tree.
• 49. The snake has been named silver boa because it is metallic colored and the first specimen found was climbing a silver palm tree.
• 50. The aquarium has some interesting specimens of unusual tropical fish.
• 51. Astronauts have brought back specimens of rock from the moon.
• 52. Normally specimens have to be dehydrated.
• 53. He refused to provide a specimen.
• 54. The scientist carefully observed the specimen.