Example sentences for: fossil

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

  • The first theory is flexible enough to withstand fossil evidence, but the second isn't.

  • Instead, multiple calibrations were used from older divergences among kingdoms (plants, animals, fungi) and animal phyla, derived from analysis of 75 nuclear proteins calibrated with the vertebrate fossil record [ 38 ] . This two-step calibration reduced the error involved in extrapolation.

  • The fossil record reveals the disappearance of pollen during previous ones, replaced by an abundance of fungus spores, telling us of a world of devastated forests rotting away.

  • The term "integrated gasification combined cycle plant" means any combination ofequipment used to gasify fossil fuels (with or without other material) and then burn the gas in a combined cycle combustion turbine.

  • According to Michael Lee of the University of Sydney and Michael Caldwell of Chicago's Field Museum, the 100-million-year-old fossil, christened Pachyrachis problematicus ("problematic thick-ribbed animal") in the late 1970s, is a proto-snake with two legs.


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