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.
• How many must be changed to make the specimen no longer a wolf but a dog?
  — Pat Shipman, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2022
• The best choice for a specimen tree for you may be the desert willow.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• The tests must take a specimen from your nose or mouth.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• The team that found the specimen says the leg belonged to a plant-eating thescelosaurus.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2022
• If Voris has his way, more specimens will join the ranks.
  — Jared Voris, National Geographic, 10 Feb. 2020
• Entire fossil specimen of a cranial crest with the back of the head to the right.
  — NBC News, 20 Apr. 2022
• By counting the rings, the team found the oldest specimen was 84 years old.
  — Alex Viveros, Science | AAAS, 17 June 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
• Ohio holds the record for largest pumpkin pie, with a specimen that weighed 3,699 pounds.
  — Ella Quittner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2022
• Eight or nine years ago, a specimen from London missed the plane.
  — Esther Landhuis, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2022
• Each specimen is among the best of its kind ever found.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 17 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Part of the issue is that most T. rex specimens are adults, with only a few subadults.
  — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• But one specimen, a 2-inch-long foot bone of a giant deer, stood apart.
  — New York Times, 10 July 2021
• The latter is reputed to be one of the largest such specimens on the planet.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
• Bizarrely, though, his team couldn’t find any more specimens.
  — Marta Zaraska, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
• Many of the specimens, like the one in Schreiber’s palm, were rufous hummingbirds.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
• The researchers will continue to study the rare specimen in even more depth.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2021
• The specimen sold on Tuesday is the only one known to have survived.
  — CNN, 8 June 2021
• And not just any old specimen with a wispy beard and a gammy leg; one fit to be declared the finest in all of Scotland.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2020
• This means specimens no longer need to be sent via plane to Austin, reducing the time to get results from 72 hours to the same day.
  — Neha Mukherjee, CNN, 21 Mar. 2025
• It can be used as a specimen, a screen or a background planting.
  — Dallas News, 22 June 2020
• Jilly said the lab would also send specimens to the CDC for more testing.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2020
• Alba, Italy—a bevy of bids flooded in from around the world for a handsome 2-pound specimen.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2020
• The shape makes the weeping redbud a great specimen in any landscape.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2022
• Nothing could possibly go wrong with all the vicious alien specimens on board, right?
  — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
• While timber rattlesnakes are thought to have been once common throughout the state, the total population is now believed to be less than 500 specimens.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2025