How to Use natural history in a Sentence

natural history

noun
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  • Around the same time, the Public Health Service launched an effort to record the natural history of syphilis.
    — Talia Herman, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2021
  • And then of course, in natural history the great influence of mine was my friend Steve Pyne.
    — Sam Deanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
  • Just want to sight-see and learn about natural history?
    — Outside Online, 17 June 2021
  • Not far from the old Dixie Highway, prairie remnants in the Markham area are reminders of the legacy of the land and its natural history.
    — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
  • Was that to fill the gap in your portfolio, which has been lacking natural history for some time?
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 14 Oct. 2022
  • This is why a lot of their natural history is cloudy, even to scientists.
    — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2021
  • And part of that collection [was] a Time-Life series on natural history; one of the books was on the Neanderthal.
    — Time, 27 May 2021
  • But for the largest museum of natural history in the world, the year-and-a-half-long closure to the public during the Covid-19 pandemic felt like an eon.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2021
  • To start, check out these six reasons to fall in love with Arizona’s natural history.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The Bald Eagle is the rare natural history that plays as a comedy.
    — Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Guides lead guests on an up-close tour while pointing out the area's sights, animals and natural history.
    — Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The Museum of the Rockies has earned its place as one of the world’s best research and natural history museums.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021
  • The fossil popped up this week, listed as the star attraction for a new museum of natural history that will open in Abu Dhabi in 2025.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Mar. 2022
  • So there would be a whole room of biographies or natural history.
    — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
  • Anne Canty, a spokeswoman for the natural history museum, said that the plaza in front of its entrance will be restored — a project that will continue through the spring.
    — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Guide Calib Rice allowed frequent stops to take in the view and talk about the geology, wildlife, plants and natural history.
    — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Get sloppy with the chisel and a few priceless eons of natural history could crumble under your work gloves.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Late in 1948, Koepcke was offered a job at the natural history museum in Lima.
    — New York Times, 18 June 2021
  • For lovers of natural history, staring at the sand-colored gorge, and at the deep-green river coursing through it a thousand feet below, feels like seeing the Sistine Chapel for the first time.
    — Janine Di Giovanni, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2021
  • Support for this comes from the natural history of viruses and a path traced using the genetics of the virus taken from people who were sick early in the initial outbreak.
    — Staff Reports, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The virtual program is part of the museum’s speaker series on the natural history of wine, beer and spirits.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Stephen Fry hosts a four-part natural history series tracing the dawn of the dinosaurs to their eventual extinction.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The researchers are moving the finds to the natural history museum, where they will be analyzed, restored and preserved.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Poole, who is a co-author on the new paper, combed through old natural history films and amateur videos to estimate the prevalence of tusklessness prior to the war.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The outpost marks Zinc’s first base in Bristol, which is considered the capital of natural history programming in the U.K.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 18 Jan. 2023
  • His studio is a blend of art and photographic gallery with a dash of natural history museum.
    — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 23 May 2022
  • The news that the Cooks’ land was bursting with the bones of ancient mammals set off a polite war among the leading natural history museums, which hoped to gain exclusive access to the fossil beds.
    — Longreads, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Three years later, the Delbridge Museum opened, one of only a few natural history collections in the state.
    — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The Florida Museum, a state natural history museum, puts the odds of being attacked by a shark at 1 in 11.5 million.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 24 June 2024
  • Belo Monte is the epicenter of a wildlife conservation project, Forever Príncipe, and has a museum detailing the natural history of the island.
    — Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024

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