In science class, we looked at many different types of specimen.
Will you please stop eating the specimens?
We need to find more specimens.
The specimens were tested in the laboratory.
I cannot make any observations regarding the specimens because I have lost them.
What a fine specimen for my lab!
Since the specimens that Darwin caught escaped he had to find more of them.
The detective took specimens of her blood to find out who killed her.
(adjective) The sample is representative of the specimens we gathered. (noun) We will send a representative to the student council meeting.
It depends on whether you want to use it as a noun or a verb.We read the catalogue to see what was on sale.His job is to catalogue the museum specimens.
The duration of Specimens of Beauty is 1560.0 seconds.
Specimens of Beauty was created on 2004-06-15.
Specimens of Bushman Folklore was created in 1911.
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The term 'carbon dating' is a compound noun, a word for the process of determining of the age of an organic matter from the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes it contains. A noun functions as the subject of a sentence or a clause, and as the object of a verb or a preposition. Example sentence: Carbon dating has helped anthropologists speed up the process of determining the age of their specimens. (subject of the sentence)
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