How to Use specimen in a Sentence

specimen

noun

• The church is a magnificent specimen of baroque architecture.
• Her dance partner is a superb physical specimen.
• Some of those specimens are not at the state health lab.
  — Joseph Choi, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2026
• The specimens ranged in age and size.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
• How many must be changed to make the specimen no longer a wolf but a dog?
  — Pat Shipman, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2022
• Bizarrely, though, his team couldn’t find any more specimens.
  — Marta Zaraska, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
• The best choice for a specimen tree for you may be the desert willow.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• It can be used as a specimen, a screen or a background planting.
  — Dallas News, 22 June 2020
• But one specimen, a 2-inch-long foot bone of a giant deer, stood apart.
  — New York Times, 10 July 2021
• This is not the case with all of them, but with only the more perfect specimens.
  — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
• When a prime specimen was chosen, the men set off in a whaleboat rowed by a crew.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
• Eight or nine years ago, a specimen from London missed the plane.
  — Esther Landhuis, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2022
• Once a rock wears away enough to expose a fossil, the specimen starts to erode with it.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• The team that found the specimen says the leg belonged to a plant-eating thescelosaurus.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2022
• Entire fossil specimen of a cranial crest with the back of the head to the right.
  — NBC News, 20 Apr. 2022
• Most of the specimens are what could be found washed up on a beach alongside seaweeds and driftwood.
  — Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2025
• The researchers will continue to study the rare specimen in even more depth.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2021
• The second test can run hundreds of specimens at a time but takes about four to five hours for results.
  — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2020
• The shape makes the weeping redbud a great specimen in any landscape.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2022
• All specimens of the new species were collected from a single host file clam, the study said.
  — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
• Over 9% of the specimens pulled from the structures were human-made.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
• Early arthropod specimens don’t have claws like these.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2026
• By counting the rings, the team found the oldest specimen was 84 years old.
  — Alex Viveros, Science | AAAS, 17 June 2021
• Nearly all of the specimens have been identified by their species.
  — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2025
• Friends, and scalpels, were enlisted to cut out maple, oak, and other specimens from sponges.
  — Elizabeth Kiefer, Architectural Digest, 6 Nov. 2025
• The latter is reputed to be one of the largest such specimens on the planet.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
• For example, to learn how leaves breathe, they’ll be asked to bring in a leaf from outside to use as a specimen.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• Male specimens can weigh up to 25 pounds, while females can reach 15 pounds.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
• The specimen sold on Tuesday is the only one known to have survived.
  — CNN, 8 June 2021
• About half of the specimens examined for the study belonged to this orange group.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 May 2025