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How to use fossil in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Fossil means the mineralized remains of an animal or plant. Example: “The Burgess Shale contains fossils of very odd organisms that lived during the Acadian.”

Examples of fossil by meaning

nounThe mineralized remains of an animal or plant.

  • Within the Hepaticae two types of fossils can be distinguished: those with sufficient characters to assign them to an order and those with more obscure characters.1987, Cora Oostendorp, The Bryophytes of the Palaeozoic and the Mesozoic (Bryophytorum Bibliotheca; 34), Berlin, Stuttgart: J. Cramer, page...

nounAny preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced...

  • He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2...
  • You know what, we’ve got a limited number of heartbeats in this world so if you’re only truly happy researching fossils and can make it work for you, you go for it.2016 November 9, Mark Carnall, “Is palaeontology a waste of public money?”, in The Guardian

More sentences with fossil

  • The Burgess Shale contains fossils of very odd organisms that lived during the Acadian.From the entry Acadian
  • This fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.From the entry ancestor
  • Glasgow will become the first university in Europe to divest from fossil fuels.From the entry divest
  • The industry is working to phase out its reliance on fossil fuels.From the entry reliance
  • You can tell he's completely in his element when he's talking about fossils.From the entry in one's element
  • Crocodiles are living fossils that haven’t changed their appearance much in millions of years.From the entry living fossil
  • The fossil fuel divestment movement is calling on institutions to divest from the companies causing climate change.From the entry divestment
  • To address the climate crisis, we need to break free of our addiction to fossil fuels.From the entry break free
  • We can determine the age of fossils using radiometric dating.From the entry age
  • These fossils are from the Jurassic period.From the entry period
  • Industries that require a lot of fossil fuels are unlikely to be popular in the current political climate.From the entry climate
  • Burning fossil fuels is harmful to the environment.From the entry harmful
  • The fossil record from this era is impoverished.From the entry impoverished
  • Fossil chironomids have proven useful as indicators of climatic change.From the entry chironomid
  • The coelacanth and the dawn redwood are living fossils.From the entry living fossil
  • The fossils date back to the Precambrian eon.From the entry date back
  • Trilobites have an extensive fossil record.From the entry fossil record
  • Tucker-Brown explained how lemurs—like much of the “stranded” flora and fauna of Madagascar—are effectively living fossils.2025 July 5, Mike Carter, “Deep in the island ark”, in FT Weekend (Travel section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6. From the entry lemur
  • Norway is an exceptionally oil-rich country, with fossil fuels generating a quarter of government revenues.2025 November 4, Eric Levitz, “The most likely AI apocalypse: How artificial intelligence could be leading most humans into an inescapable…. From the entry resource curse
  • Fossils show that the ancient primate Proconsul africanus, shown in the illustration above, was a tailless tree-dweller.2024 March 23, Mindy Weisberger, “Why don’t humans have tails? Scientists find answers in an unlikely place”, in CNN, archived from the…. From the entry illustration
  • This is the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era.”2023 December 11, Fiona Harvey, Patrick Greenfield, Nina Lakhani, Adam Morton, Damian Carrington, quoting Mohamed Adow, “Cop28 draft…. From the entry beginning of the end
  • Some countries are despairing that the text does not require a full phase-out of fossil fuels.2023 December 11, Fiona Harvey, Patrick Greenfield, Nina Lakhani, Adam Morton, Damian Carrington, “Cop28 draft climate deal criticised as…. From the entry phase-out
  • We must keep fossil fuels in the ground and deliver a clean, green and affordable energy system.2022 August 12, Caroline Lucas, “As drought blights the UK, our politicians have their heads buried in the sand”, in The Guardian. From the entry do exactly what it says on the tin
  • There is still time to rid ourselves of fossil fuels, not much.2022 September 14, Arthur Neslen, quoting Noam Chomsky, “Health groups call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty”, in Katharine…. From the entry window of opportunity
  • “The modern addiction to fossil fuels is not just an act of environmental vandalism.2022 September 14, Arthur Neslen, quoting Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, “Health groups call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation…. From the entry self-sabotage
  • Monoplacophorans are an extremely ancient type of mollusc, the oldest known from the fossil record.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 229. From the entry monoplacophoran
  • Perhaps it was Meseta, where the oldest salamandrid fossils on Earth have been discovered.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 35. From the entry salamandrid
  • But the European fossils are from a most unusual branch of the family known as bothremydids.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 29. From the entry bothremydid
  • There are a few well known shelled giant cephalopods from the fossil record.2017 October 31, Mark Carnall, “Searching for the Old Ones: Lovecraftian giant cephalopods and the fossil record”, in The Guardian. From the entry ammonite
  • The Cretaceous Lebanese Lagerstätten have been especially generous with coleoid fossils.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry lagerstätte
  • What Kruta found in the ammonoid fossils was an unfoldable radula covered with delicate, comblike teeth.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry radula
  • Small mammal fossil accumulations are generally the result of both coprocoenosis and post-depositional processes.2016, Loïc Lebreton, Multi-taxa referential of a modern Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo) aerie. From the entry coprocoenosis
  • The Ordovician hardgrounds and their bioerosional trace fossils are best known in North America.2015 July 29, “Bioerosion of Inorganic Hard Substrates in the Ordovician of Estonia (Baltica)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry bioerosional
  • He also looks at genetics, because our genes provide a historical record, just as fossils do.2014, Neil Genzlinger, ‘Your Inner Fish’ Traces Human Evolutionary History on PBS. From the entry eggy
  • We do not have too little fossil fuel, we have far too much.2012 November 12, Damian Carrington, “IEA report reminds us peak oil idea has gone up in flames”, in the Guardian. From the entry peak oil
  • A pure 'peakist' view questions how much longer conventional (cheaper) supplies of fossil fuels will continue.2012, H. Herring, Living in a Low-Carbon Society in 2050. From the entry peakist
  • The biggest found so far in the fossil record are the teratorns.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 249. From the entry teratorn

Meaning of fossil

  1. noun The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
  2. noun Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
  3. noun A fossil word.

Full definition of fossil

Questions about fossil in a sentence

How do you use fossil in a sentence?
Fossil is used as a noun. For example: “The Burgess Shale contains fossils of very odd organisms that lived during the Acadian.”
What is a short sentence with fossil?
“Trilobites have an extensive fossil record.”
What does fossil mean?
Fossil means the mineralized remains of an animal or plant.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fossil (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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