Pronunciation of the English word specimen.
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1. | The end of which there were two little sketches of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method. | |
2. | This is a very rare specimen. | |
3. | A good specimen might weigh up to a kilo. | |
4. | The entomologist could not find a specimen of the bug. | |
5. | The specimen was caught in a pitfall trap sunk in the ground. | |
6. | For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country. | |
7. | Best known in Yellowstone are the fossil forests of Specimen Ridge, where the remains of hundreds of 50-million-year-old trees stand exposed on a steep hillside, with trunks up to eight feet in diameter and some more than 20 feet tall. | |
8. | The curator of the museum is responsible for properly housing each specimen in the storage cabinets and facilitating loans and visiting researchers. | |
9. | Preliminary analysis suggests this specimen to be between 22,000 and 39,500 years old, but it will be carbon dated to confirm that. |