Example sentences for: discovery

How can you use “discovery” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The discovery of the New World by Europeans approximately 500 years ago—and of its many biological species not described in religious Scriptures—gave impetus to major conceptual progress in biology.

  • When the discovery of gold on the Fraser River in 1858 brought in a flood of American adventurers, Britain decided it was time to take the land over from the Hudson’s Bay Company and create the colony of British Columbia.

  • Now an atmospheric museum, it recreates the Age of Discovery with exhibits of navigational instruments, charts, weapons, and everyday items of the period.

  • The history of the discovery and naming of the lanthanides (the fourteen rare-earth elements with atomic numbers 58 to 71 in Mendeleev's table) is fascinating.

  • This initial study, which will be expanded as further sequences are generated, demonstrates that EST generation is an effective method for the discovery of the new genes in plant parasitic nematodes.


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