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.
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The collection’s opening comes as the current court has recently ruled or is weighing some of the same major issues.
— Jessica Gresko, Chicago Tribune, 2 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 -
For the occasion, the makeup mogul wore a totally sheer spring dress from the collection—and her daughter wore a miniature version of the piece.
— Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 May 2023 -
Willett even helped with the design process for this Crate & Barrel line, making the collection a family project.
— Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2023 -
The headpieces, swords, scepters and rings used decades ago for the queen's coronation will reemerge from the royal collection to anoint Charles as the sovereign monarch of Britain.
— Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023 -
The limited collection launches May 14 online on Target and in most Target stores.
— Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 May 2023 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Money problems were clear during the sale of the Gerald Fineberg collection at Christie’s.
— Zachary Small, New York Times, 22 May 2023 -
The debut capsule collection will be released in full on April 12.
— Michael Saponara, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2024 -
His collection of blues 78s (vintage vinyl) and there 10 guitars that had been donated through the years.
— Steven Gaydos, Variety, 6 July 2024 -
Because the libraries’ map collections were so outdated, R&A agents were sometimes forced to adapt 19th-century maps for the age of fighter planes and radar.
— Elyse Graham, TIME, 25 Sep. 2024 -
Fifty remaining works from his collection went to the Ludwig Museum in 2023.
— Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2024
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