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How to use the word well-preserved in a Sentence?

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The well-preserved tail feathers in this new fossil bird provide great new information about how sexual selection has shaped the avian tail from their earliest stage, the complexity we see in Yuanchuavis's feathers is related to one of the reasons we hypothesize why living birds are so incredibly diverse, because they can separate themselves into different species just by differences in plumage and differences in song.

Wang Min

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We really, truly don't know anything, this particular interval in Earth's history isn't all that well preserved in the deep sea sediments we look at. It's hard to find suitable locations to do additional studies.

Elizabeth Sibert

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The new crater is uniquely well preserved, as surface water hadn't yet accumulated in the crater when we surveyed it, which allowed us to study a' fresh' crater, untouched by degradation.

Evgeny Chuvilin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The bottom of Lake Champlain is a well preserved museum, and I enjoy seeing things for the first time that no one has ever seen on the bottom, or even knew existed.

Gary Lefebvre

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I wanted to find a way to share this incredibly unique item with the public, the scroll is very well-preserved thanks to the work of the Library's conservators, but it is still incredibly fragile.

Jonathan Loar

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Since horses are so hard to sex morphologically unless fairly well-preserved, whole skeletons are found, we know very little about the varying roles of male and female horses in the past.

Albna Hulda Plsdttir

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The crater is exceptionally well-preserved and that is surprising because glacier ice is an incredibly efficient erosive agent that would have quickly removed traces of the impact.

Kurt Kjær

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There are quite a few bones, and dozens of pieces, some of the bones are not in very good shape, but some are actually quite well preserved.

Loren Davis

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's quite unusual to find remnants from the Viking age that are so well preserved ... it might be used today if you sharpened the edge.

Conservator Per Morten Ekerhovd

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's so well preserved that we're constantly reminded of our history.

Gibbs Knotts

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Her work has been extremely controversial, but our research, which uses different techniques, strongly vindicates her findings, the difference between her work and ours is that our fossils are, frankly, really crappy, whereas hers were very well-preserved.

Susannah Maidment

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up,totally worn out and screaming "Woo Hoo" what a ride!

Anonymous

added by JP03
9 years ago

The mandible of the elephant was very well-preserved, we used spider to get as many details about the teeth as possible.

Denis Baev

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Any good reward well deserved is well preserved.

Jacqueline Job

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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