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.
  • This is just one of three 1964 Valiants in his collection, none of which are for sale.
    David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • How did this collection get started in the first place?
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 2 June 2023
  • When the new center opens, the collection will be publicly available in full for the first time.
    Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Sometimes a collection even starts quite like that, and then gets pared down.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The full Monarch x VistaPrint collection is available at monarch-sgv.com.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 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
  • Prices start at $6, and the complete collection is available for $102.
    Lauren Phillips, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • My collection of plaster wall sculptures is my homage to him.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Sydney Sweeney has been gearing up for the launch of her Frankies Bikinis collection.
    Korin Miller, Women's Health, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Cyrus walked the runway for Marine Serre’s Spring 2024 Menswear collection.
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
  • Cincinnati comes to life in this collection of rare photos.
    Carl Weiser, The Enquirer, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Let Go of Your Hand, a collection of six new demos that were recorded as they were written, on Bandcamp.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 18 Mar. 2024
  • That amount would have exceeded Washington state’s net collections from the tax in the fiscal year that ended in June, which totaled $848 million.
    Phoebe Liu, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • An excerpt from the new short story collection Wallflowers.
    Jessica Furseth, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025

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