1.   A small specimen of tissue can be taken for examination through a biopsy channel.

2.   Many miles from camp they came upon a small specimen partially coated with a frothy greenish-tan crust.

3.   Small specimens do fairly well in tanks, but they are not among the most hardy aquarium fishes.

4.   Then I taste a small specimen, closely observing its flavor, smell, texture, and bite before spitting it out.

5.   After seeing such small specimens, we were ready for bigger quarry, and Portnoy agreed to escort us to a more promising site.

6.   It was a small specimen mounted on a perch that looked a lot like our birds.

7.   Outdoors, I consolidated some small specimen, too, but I took the unpotting process a step further, putting large potted plants into the ground.

8.   The cholla has such wicked spines that they could plant only small specimens, later removing the super spiny teddy bear variety.

9.   The technique was used to coat extremely small specimens, like viruses, in preparation for photographing them under the electron microscope.

10.   When working with small specimens, there is always a tendency to want to crowd them together to create a fuller, more instantaneous effect.