Example sentences for: scientist

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

  • During their respective hospital sojourns, both survivors encounter Vaughan (Elias Koteas), a scientist who had been a well-known TV personality until a near-fatal motorcycle accident made him obsessed with the erotic possibilities of highway crashes.

  • It seems that last month, at a naval base near Murmansk, a 19-year-old sailor killed eight crewmen aboard a nuclear submarine and took control of the vessel for twenty hours, repeatedly threatening to destroy it, creating the potential for what one scientist quoted in the LAT calls a "floating Chernobyl."

  • According to Bob May, professor of mathematical biology at the University of Oxford, president of the Royal Society, and former UK Chief Scientist, such initiatives might be ‘driven more by political expediency than common sense, but the moment you see that train beginning to roll, there's a chance to do something useful with it’.

  • But in his entirely marvelous book How the Mind Works , cognitive scientist Steven Pinker suggests that we can safely posit a taste for self-control without opening the floodgates that would allow us to posit a taste for drinking motor oil.

  • In the new genetic thriller, the scientist is no longer mad, because he has no illusions of mastery.


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