paleontology

in a sentence

Paleontology smells like rock dust, bone dust.†  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

He felt like a paleontologist coming face to face with a living dinosaur.†  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

Archie was not morbid; he was a paleontologist.†  (source) Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl, 2000

I mean I woke up this morning and I thought, Great...tomorrow's the paleontology exam and I've hardly studied.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

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) Nicole Krauss, The History of Love, 2005

I went back to my seat and read one issue of Paleontologist Today.†  (source) Nicole Krauss, The History of Love, 2005

The paleontological study of dinosaurs was finished.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

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) Nicole Krauss, The History of Love, 2005

The only difference is that paleontologists study fossils in order to figure out the origin and evolution of life.†  (source) Nicole Krauss, The History of Love, 2005

"I read your book," I managed, "and I'm thinking of becoming a paleontologist.†  (source) Nicole Krauss, The History of Love, 2005

If the St. Thomases of paleontology were present, they would reverentially touch him with their fingers and believe in his existence, thus acknowledging their obstinate heresy.†  (source) Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1871

Since bones were all the paleontologists had, bones were what they used.†  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

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) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014