How to Use collection in a Sentence

collection

noun
  • The museum's collection is one of the best in the country.
  • There will be a trash collection this week.
  • Ten percent of the collection goes to the city's shelters for homeless people.
  • We took up a collection for the school renovations.
  • The technology makes data collection easier.
  • These first four tracks—a third of the album’s trim collection of twelve—run the gamut of boygenius emotions.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Sydney Sweeney has been gearing up for the launch of her Frankies Bikinis collection.
    Korin Miller, Women's Health, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Looking at the full list, her collection expands to 55 total Latin pop radio hits.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Its stunning gardens showcase a vast collection of seasonal plants, flowers and trees.
    Helen Carefoot, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The limited edition bottle is the third and final component of the collection.
    Jillian Dara, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Though no sisters were featured on the South team, the group also boasted a connected collection of players.
    Olivia Nolan, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Josephine Baker was the source of inspiration of Dior’s couture collection.
    Town & Country, 4 Apr. 2023
  • While any of the brand’s pieces are attractive, the brand’s best-selling zodiac collection feels a bit more personalized and special for gifting.
    Maya Gandara, StyleCaster, 31 Oct. 2024
  • For a collection of striking chiaroscuro portraits in the group’s yano, or common house, Andujar allotted a whole roll of precious film per sitting.
    Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
  • TikTok’s critics say the Chinese government could access the app's massive collection of user data.
    Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The case involved one of the largest collections of images that FBI agents in Alaska had ever seen, according to court documents.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The group has seen eight different collections rise into the top 10 on the Top Album Sales chart, with just two missing the No. 1 rung.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • How did this collection get started in the first place?
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 2 June 2023
  • Sometimes a collection even starts quite like that, and then gets pared down.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The album at times sounds like a collection of fractured love songs.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
  • This will give you that time without the risk of being turned over to a collection agency.
    Lindsey Bever, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2023
  • The gown was Reed’s own take on a dress from Lagerfeld’s 1988 haute couture collection.
    Brittany Natale, Redbook, 3 May 2023
  • Colleagues on the ground at the spring 2024 couture collections reported a sense of paring back at the shows.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The collection was released in early May and will remain in stores through Pride Month, which is June.
    Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
  • This would be the most expensive phone in Google’s collection.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2023
  • My current music collection has a lot of I have a lot of Roxy Music.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 12 May 2023
  • Ziegler said O’Neal was happy to add to his collection on Friday.
    Andre C. Fernandez, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • That collection put the style's slouchy silhouettes and plaid flannels on the fashion map, Greer said.
    Kai McNamee, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Some customers have been known to display them on the wall in their living rooms while others use them to take trash cans down to the end of the drive for collection.
    Trinity Francis, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The movie is directed by Jon M. Chu, who shared his own collection of behind-the-scenes photos to mark the end of filming.
    Sabienna Bowman, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024

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