SPECIES in a Sentence
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183 example sentences for SPECIES, such as:
1. That species disappeared in the Ice Age.
2. The area is rich in different plant species.
3. This species of bird now exists only in Africa.
4. The two species diverged millions of years ago.
5. The two species have developed from a common ancestry.
2. The area is rich in different plant species.
3. This species of bird now exists only in Africa.
4. The two species diverged millions of years ago.
5. The two species have developed from a common ancestry.
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Meanings and Examples of SPECIES
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species
n. (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed
n. a specific kind of something
Classic Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
1 However charitable toward the Lower Classes she may have thought herself, Carol had been reared to assume that servants belong to a distinct and inferior species.
2 Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the present, hereafter to be filled in all its departments by subsequent laborers.
3 There is a deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously baptised.
4 From having the baleen in his mouth, the Fin-Back is sometimes included with the right whale, among a theoretic species denominated WHALEBONE WHALES, that is, whales with baleen.
5 Not even at the present day has the original prestige of the Sperm Whale, as fearfully distinguished from all other species of the leviathan, died out of the minds of the whalemen as a body.
6 Of what precise species this sea-monster was, is not mentioned.
7 Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks.
8 Also, that in Henry VIIIth's time, a certain cook of the court obtained a handsome reward for inventing an admirable sauce to be eaten with barbacued porpoises, which, you remember, are a species of whale.
9 It also seems to me that such scratches in the whale are probably made by hostile contact with other whales; for I have most remarked them in the large, full-grown bulls of the species.
10 Be it said, however, that the Sperm Whale is far less liable to this accident than any other species.
11 And though none of them precisely answer to any known species of the present time, they are yet sufficiently akin to them in general respects, to justify their taking rank as Cetacean fossils.
12 Cuvier pronounced these fragments to have belonged to some utterly unknown Leviathanic species.
13 But some specimen bones of it being taken across the sea to Owen, the English Anatomist, it turned out that this alleged reptile was a whale, though of a departed species.
14 And equally fallacious seems the conceit, that because the so-called whale-bone whales no longer haunt many grounds in former years abounding with them, hence that species also is declining.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He...
15 Wherefore, for all these things, we account the whale immortal in his species, however perishable in his individuality.
Example Sentence: (104 in 7 pages)
1 The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the man who borrows, and the man who lends.
2 That species disappeared in the Ice Age.
3 The two species diverged millions of years ago.
4 The arrival of this South American predator threatened the survival of native species.
5 The area is rich in different plant species.
6 Predators have been observed to avoid attacking brightly coloured species.
7 Modern farming methods have led to the total extinction of many species of wild flowers.
8 For homework I want you to write an essay on endangered species.
9 An operation is beginning to try to save a species of crocodile from extinction.
10 This species of bird now exists only in Africa.
11 This species of bird is decreasing in numbers every year.
12 These two species share a common set of characteristics.
13 The two species have developed from a common ancestry.
14 Botanists are not in complete accord about how many species exist.
15 Jeff Groscost actually wanted the Legislature to determine whether a species was truly endangered before the state enforced federal protections.