Sentence Examples

1. One specimen fell out of a taxi and bent over right in front of Sam to fix an errant knee-high boot.
2. But be assured that the specimen before us appertains to the very simplest species of cryptograph.
3. I cannot forbear giving a specimen of the general philosophy of the volume.
4. After full exposure to her collection of dead spiders in specimen jars, she believed my rather chilling story about searching for a lost friend last seen in the opium dens of San Diego and provided a reliable referral.
5. Perched on a modest cliff, our family retreat is a grand specimen of a shingle style summer cottage with one of the broadest views of the Atlantic.
6. After reading his account of it I was prepared to meet a good specimen of manhood, but hardly the quiet, business-like gentleman who came here to-day.
7. At the moment of his arrival a small yacht was under trial in the bay this yacht had been built by order of an Englishman, who, having heard that the Genoese excelled all other builders along the shores of the Mediterranean in the construction of fast-sailing vessels, was desirous of possessing a specimen of their skill the price agreed upon between the Englishman and the Genoese builder was forty thousand francs.
8. The innkeeper himself was a man of from forty to fifty-five years of age, tall, strong, and bony, a perfect specimen of the natives of those southern latitudes he had dark, sparkling, and deep-set eyes, hooked nose, and teeth white as those of a carnivorous animal his hair, like his beard, which he wore under his chin, was thick and curly, and in spite of his age but slightly interspersed with a few silvery threads.
9. Thomas and his wife are hospitable folk, elderly, and without children, and if the specimen I enjoyed of their hospitality be of the average kind, their lives must be pretty comfortable.
10. There were worse things than being alone with a gorgeous specimen of a man.