Example Sentences

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To teach himself to paint, he copied from old masters in the Louvre and from plants and taxidermic animals in Paris’s natural history museums.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

The well-curated bookstore can help you ID any plants or flowers you might come across while exploring local forests, and make sure to take a photo with the taxidermic grizzly bear.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2022

Tourists were milling about inside one of them, browsing rows of instant coffee, jade eggs and taxidermic hawks and antelopes.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2019

Casual movie fans might see it and shrug—or, worse, savor the superficial imperfections with an almost taxidermic fascination and let them distract from the truly awe-inspiring cinematic narrative itself.

From Slate • May 14, 2018

Surely they had not saved her from the taxidermic fate Lord Fredrick planned for her, only to have her end her days as the chef’s special at an ostrich steakhouse?

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood