Definitions
Small part, example, or portion used to show what the whole is like.
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English saumple, sample, from Old French essample (“example”), from Latin exemplum. Doublet of example and exemplum.
Used in a sentence
“a blood sample”
“He looked down into Glen Doone first, and sniffed as if he were smelling it, like a sample of goods from a wholesale house; and then he looked at the hills over yonder, and then he stared at me.”
“Then one day in May 2012, he picked up a free sample of a Vietnamese-language magazine based in New Jersey. In it, he saw an article about a career Navy officer named Kimberly Mitchell and her search into her past.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Test piece”6 letters
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