paleontologyin a sentence
- Archie was not morbid; he was a paleontologist.† (source)
- The paleontological study of dinosaurs was finished.† (source)
- He felt like a paleontologist coming face to face with a living dinosaur.† (source)
- Here the sky opens up, and she hears the clacking of branches: that's the narrow stripe of gardens behind the Gallery of Paleontology.† (source)
- I mean I woke up this morning and I thought, Great… tomorrow's the paleontology exam and l've hardly studied.† (source)
- He asked me what I wanted to become and I said I'd briefly considered paleontology,† (source)
- Ross is supposed to be a paleontologist on the TV sitcom Friends.
- Information that paleontologists could provide.† (source)
- A pair of soldiers on the roof of the Gallery of Paleontology peer over the gardens with binoculars.† (source)
- Since bones were all the paleontologists had, bones were what they used.† (source)
- Paleontology smells like rock dust, bone dust.† (source)
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- First group is a paleontologist, a paleobotanist, and a mathematician.† (source)
- The best paleontologists were the ones who could make the most clever deductions.† (source)
- Like other paleontologists, Grant had become very expert at working with bones.† (source)
- It's actually rather close to what paleontologists believed a long time ago.† (source)
- Some paleontologists refer to the behavior of an animal as occurring in an ecological hyperspace.† (source)
- I went back to my seat and read one issue of Paleontologist Today.† (source)
- "I read your book," I managed, "and I'm thinking of becoming a paleontologist.† (source)
- Old Mr Eikhardt-he's the paleontology/archaeology tute in the advanced class I take up at the Ed Center-he says they have a great classics and ancient artifacts department.† (source)
- The home belongs to a retired paleontologist and von Rumpel believes it is here that the chief of security at the museum in Paris fled during the chaos following the invasion of France three years ago.† (source)
- But Grant knew that paleontology, the study of extinct life, had in recent years taken on an unexpected relevance to the modern world.† (source)
- Paleontology was essentially detective work, searching for clues in the fossil bones and the trackways of the long-vanished giants.† (source)
- He saw himself as an outdoor man, and he knew that all the important work in paleontology was done outdoors, with your bands.† (source)
- Although many fields of science, such as physics and chemistry, had become federally funded, paleontology remained strongly dependent on private patrons.† (source)
- And all the great disputes of paleontology were carried out in this fashion-including the bitter debate, in which Grant was a key figure, about whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded.† (source)
- Grant was a professor of paleontology at the University of Denver, and one of the foremost researchers in his field, but he had never been comfortable with social niceties.† (source)
- He looked at the pile of stones, brushing through them with his band, following the instinct of a paleontologist.† (source)
- There were paleontologists like me, and a mathematician from Texas named Ian Malcolm, and a couple of ecologists.† (source)
- Eventually, I hope, paleontologists such as yourself will compare our animals with the fossil record to verify the developmental sequence.† (source)
- Paleontologists had been digging up bones for so long that they had forgotten how little information could be gleaned from a skeleton.† (source)
- Just as paleontologists have come around to the idea that dinosaurs were probably warm-blooded, a lot of us are starting to think some of them might have been quite intelligent, too.† (source)
- They are paleontologists.† (source)
- The only difference is that paleontologists study fossils in order to figure out the origin and evolution of life.† (source)
- Along with the jacket and the pilot's hat, my mother also gave me a book by someone named Daniel Eldridge who she said would deserve a Nobel if they gave them to paleontologists.† (source)
- I didn't have to think for very long to know that he couldn't help me with the thing I had come about, because even if he deserved a Nobel for being the greatest living paleontologist, he also deserved one for being the oldest.† (source)
- Bird asked what a paleontologist was and Mom said that if he took a complete, illustrated guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shred it into a hundred pieces, cast them into the wind from the museum's steps, let a few weeks pass, went back and scoured Fifth Avenue and Central Park for as many surviving scraps as he could find, then tried to reconstruct the history of painting, including schools, styles, genres, and names of painters from his scraps, that would be like being a…† (source)
- …what a paleontologist was and Mom said that if he took a complete, illustrated guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shred it into a hundred pieces, cast them into the wind from the museum's steps, let a few weeks pass, went back and scoured Fifth Avenue and Central Park for as many surviving scraps as he could find, then tried to reconstruct the history of painting, including schools, styles, genres, and names of painters from his scraps, that would be like being a paleontologist.† (source)
- He asked me what I wanted to become and I said I'd briefly considbrior iered paleontology, and then he asked me what a paleontologist did, so I told him if he took a complete, illustrated guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shredded it into a hundred pieces, cast them into the wind from the museum's steps, etc., and then he asked me why I'd changed my mind, and I told him I thought I wasn't cut out for it, so he asked me what I thought I was cut out for, and I said, "It's a long…† (source)
- For the student interested in the biology of language, as opposed to its paleontology, there is endless material in the racy neologisms of American, and particularly in its new compounds and novel verbs.† (source)
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