Sample Sentences for
paleontology
(editor-reviewed)

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    Paleontology smells like rock dust, bone dust.†  (source)
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    I mean I woke up this morning and I thought, Great...tomorrow's the paleontology exam and I've hardly studied.†  (source)
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    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 story," so he said, "I have time," so I said, "You really want to know?" and he said Yes, so I told him the truth, beginning with my father's Swiss Army knife and the book of Edible Plants and Flowers in North A†  (source)
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    A pair of soldiers on the roof of the Gallery of Paleontology peer over the gardens with binoculars.†  (source)
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    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)
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    Archie was not morbid; he was a paleontologist.†  (source)
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    The paleontological study of dinosaurs was finished.  (source)
    paleontological = of the study of extinct life
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    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)
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    The best paleontologists were the ones who could make the most clever deductions.†  (source)
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    He felt like a paleontologist coming face to face with a living dinosaur.†  (source)
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    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)
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    The only difference is that paleontologists study fossils in order to figure out the origin and evolution of life.†  (source)
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    I went back to my seat and read one issue of Paleontologist Today.†  (source)
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