FOSSIL in a Sentence

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20 example sentences for FOSSIL, such as:

1. The fossils may be a million years old.
2. Marine sponges have a long fossil record.
3. It includes discrete identifiable trace fossils.
4. You have to follow these obsolete fossilized ways.
5. 'Mostly fossil,' the manager had remarked disparagingly.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOSSIL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fossil
 n.  remnant; remains of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age
Classic Sentence:
1  Holding his fossil in front of him, Mr. Hardcastle marched off.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
2  It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  'Mostly fossil,' the manager had remarked disparagingly.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
4  It was no more fossil than I am; but they call it fossil when it is dug up.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
5  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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
6  Here and there I found traces of the little people in the shape of rare fossils broken to pieces or threaded in strings upon reeds.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  Cuvier, with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons flatter Moses.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
8  This unweeting manner of performance is the true ring by which, in this refurbishing age, a fossilized survival may be known from a spurious reproduction.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
Example Sentence:
1  Yesterday, I posted that the total budget of fossil fuel emissions we can ever emit is 1 trillion tones of Carbon.
2  Professor Mike Archer who led the team of fossil hunters says they've made some extraordinary discoveries.
3  Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will produce a 3 percent reduction in the density of Earth's outermost atmosphere by 2017.
4  The cities of San Francisco and Seattle have pulled their money out of fossil fuel companies, taking a climate divestment campaign from college campuses to local government.
5  That's a 40 percent increase over levels in 1750, before humans began burning fossil fuels in earnest.
6  The electricity industry consumes large amounts of fossil fuels.
7  Marine sponges have a long fossil record.
8  The scientist could visualize the fauna of the period by examining the skeletal remains and the fossils.
9  It includes discrete identifiable trace fossils.
10  The fossils appear to be an early form of seaweed washed up on a beach.
11  The fossils may be a million years old.
12  You have to follow these obsolete fossilized ways.