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How to use naturalist in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun, adjective

Naturalist means a natural philosopher; a scientist. Example: “Gordon Russell, a physician and alumnus who was a collector of ornithological and naturalist art.”

Examples of naturalist by meaning

adjectiveSynonym of naturalistic.

  • Gordon Russell, a physician and alumnus who was a collector of ornithological and naturalist art.1985 July 21, Eleanor Charles, “Connecticut Guide”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC...
  • The restaurant feels of-the-moment Los Angeles in its naturalist beauty (plants breathe life into the minimalist space) and its wide-open creativity, though much of Bost’s culinary background is steeped in grand French traditions.2019 July 6, Bill Addison, “Has the curse on a storied Melrose restaurant space finally lifted?”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles...

More sentences with naturalist

  • It is the off-seasons I love the most; almost any naturalist does.2006, Julie Zickefoose, Letters From Eden: A Year at Home, in the Woods, page 45. From the entry off-seasons
  • Dalio is an outdoorsman and naturalist of the Hemingway school: he likes to go places and kill things.2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN. From the entry outdoorsman
  • Linné discussed the strange “lamprey” with Norwegian Bishop and naturalist Johan Ernst Gunnerus and they both classified it as a worm.2011 December 19, Jancuk Jaran, “Hagfish”, in All Animals, retrieved 04 Jan 2018. From the entry sleepmarken
  • This claim, espoused by scientific naturalists, is called scientism, the view that science is the paradigm of truth and rationality.2007, Ted Cabal, The Apologetics Study Bible, B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN. From the entry scientism
  • Of all the naturalists to choose to make a victim!2007 January 20, Ginia Bellafante, “A Final Adventure for the Consummate Animal Hunter”, in New York Times. From the entry fearsomeness
  • A naturalist would never weary in the Eleutherian scene.1934, Hugh MacLachlan Bell, Bahamas: Isles of June, page 111. From the entry Eleutherian
  • It is the creation of a verist, of a naturalist, founded on a clear and intimate perception of nature.1903, David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford, Donatello. From the entry verist
  • Naturalists, often trivializingly dubbed “botanists,” hunted, fished, shot, trapped, caught, cut, or uprooted any species on mere suspicion of its being unknown.2008, Regine I. Heberlein, Writing a national colony, page 104. From the entry trivializingly
  • The author (obviously a naturalist of no mean order) received an official rap over the knuckles for trespassing, and for encouraging others to do so.1950 March, Eric S. Tonks, “The Whitacre—Hampton-in-Arden Line, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 187. From the entry rap
  • First, Spanish and Creole scholars developed a new kind of natural philosophy and began to share the naturalist and even antiquarianist interests of their European counterparts.2014 July, Claudia Brosseder, The Power of Huacas: Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru, University of Texas Press…. From the entry antiquarianist
  • Aristotelian philosophy and Christian theology emerged and subverted it for a number of centuries, but it made a comeback with the naturalist philosophers of the sixteenth century.2005, David Skrbina, Panpsychism in the West, MIT Press, →ISBN, pages 2–3. From the entry panpsychism
  • The Indonesian islands of Taliabu, Peleng and Batudaka are in a region named Wallacea, after Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th-century naturalist who developed a theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin’s.2020 January 9, Karen Weintraub, “Trove of New Bird Species Found on Remote Indonesian Islands”, in The New York Times. From the entry Taliabu
  • The “aspective” naturalist program has gone from strength to strength, while the “partitive” dualist program, with Sir John Eccles as its sole eminent champion of recent decades, has gone nowhere.2013, Nicola Hoggard Creegan, Andrew Shepherd, Taking Rational Trouble Over the Mysteries: Reactions to Atheism. From the entry aspective

Meaning of naturalist

  1. noun A natural philosopher; a scientist.
  2. noun A person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism.
  3. noun An expert in natural history or the study of plants and animals.

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Questions about naturalist in a sentence

How do you use naturalist in a sentence?
Naturalist is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Gordon Russell, a physician and alumnus who was a collector of ornithological and naturalist art.”
What is a short sentence with naturalist?
“A naturalist would never weary in the Eleutherian scene.”
What does naturalist mean?
Naturalist means a natural philosopher; a scientist.

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