How to Use collect in a Sentence

collect

1 of 2 noun

• Most apps on your phone collect info to learn more about you.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2022
• As a result, blood collects and forms a pool around the valves, causing swelling.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 11 May 2023
• Her phone bill was ridiculous from all my collect calls.
  — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• There are other collect-at-home kits, but this is the first authorized for sale over-the-counter at stores or online, the agency said.
  — NBC News, 10 Dec. 2020
• The current cost of an interstate call is 21 cents a minute for debit or prepaid calls, and 25 cents a minute for collect calls.
  — NBC News, 31 Dec. 2019
• In Texas, a couple collect dresses and carefully set them aside, waiting for the child who will wear them.
  — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• In this condition, plaque collects in the arteries and can lead to heart disease.
  — Discover Magazine, 30 June 2023
• Condensation and mist collect on the fabric of your backpack as the weather changes.
  — Matt Jancer, Wired, 25 Feb. 2021
• So what has this campaign done over the past seven months besides collect signatures?
  — Jena McGregor, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
• The one-eighth turn of the bottle by hand daily, slowly inclining the bottle each time until all the sediment collects, can take up to 30 days.
  — Melissa Mora Hidalgo, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
• The basin where the rain and meltwater collect was formerly covered by Suicide Glacier, which used to contribute ice to the Mendenhall Glacier.
  — Becky Bohrer, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2023
• The change comes after growing scrutiny of the amount of data that tech companies such as Google collect and retain.
  — NBC News, 26 May 2020
• Second, there are misconceptions about the type of data that TikTok collects.
  — Ana Faguy, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• Last year, an inmate and his mom sued the county, claiming its jailhouse phone rates were still too high at $4 flat for local collect calls and 50 cents per minute for local calls charged on a debit card.
  — Jordan Graham, Orange County Register, 15 Mar. 2017
• Leith explained that the data that Google and Apple collect is linked to a user’s name, email address, payment card data, and other devices.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 31 Mar. 2021
• Greenberg, the former Seminole County tax collect, faces a slew of federal charges — 33, as the case now stands — and is slated to reach a plea agreement with prosecutors by May 15.
  — Orlando Sentinel Podcasts, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• Founded in 1965, the archive collects, preserves and restores, screens, loans, and licenses archival moving images.
  — Julia Chan, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
• Divots in the dome’s surface collect rainwater to create vernal pools, which are home to fairy shrimp, tiny translucent freshwater crustaceans.
  — Outside Online, 17 June 2021
• Also, many products and services are offered free to consumers, who in a sense pay with the valuable personal data companies such as Google collect.
  — Brent Kendall and Rob Copeland, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
• Every app that runs on our phone collects and stores data, and in the case of arrest, all of that information could become accessible to law enforcement.
  — Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 5 June 2020
• Not additionally charging a fee just to make the change removes some of the economic penalty, but keeping the add-collect leaves the airlines in the tough spot of essentially asking someone to fly sick.
  — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• As much as Far Cry reimagined open-world combat over the past decade, that series has devolved into a bloated collect-a-thon (this year's Rage 2 fell down the same unfocused rabbit hole of general design).
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2019
• Injured tissue is more acidic than healthy tissue due to a process known as acidosis, where lactic acid and other acidic byproducts produced by damaged tissue collect.
  — Aaron W. Harrison, The Conversation, 16 July 2021
• This act lets the FDA collect fees from companies that produce certain drugs and biological products for humans.
  — Sneha Dave, STAT, 20 Mar. 2022
• She’s been well-known among incarcerated people for years, a defense lawyer who takes on indigent clients, who answers every collect call.
  — STAT, 14 Apr. 2021
• Our blood helps nourish developing eggs, and our objects and architecture collect standing water, giving the insects a perfect spot in which to breed their young.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2022
• The court had granted Waring two hours of unrecorded collect calls and one 20-minute non-collect call per day in preparation for his court dates, as is standard when a defendant forgos outside counsel.
  — Daily Pilot, 11 Oct. 2019
• The materials hum and vibrate, shaping the sonic experience; beyond horns and tubes, sound collects and echoes under winged mica canopies.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
• Reporters wander into a diner in West Virginia, collect quotes, and report back with patronizing chagrin that the people gnawing on corned beef hash still like the president.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020
• Other ways of helping the cause include hosting either a diaper drop-off barrel or diaper drive to help the diaper bank collect donations.
  — Corey Schmidt, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022

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collect

2 of 2 verb

• I took a minute to collect my thoughts.
• He collected stories from all over the world.
• We collected our baggage from the baggage claim at the airport.
• I left my suit at the cleaners and I have to collect it today.
• We collected soil samples from several areas on the site.
• He has an impressive stamp collection, though he has been collecting for only a few years.
• She enjoys collecting antique teapots.
• They collected information about the community.
• They hope to collect over 1,000 signatures on the petition.
• By the end of the year, Coté hopes the bank will have collected about 100 male breast samples.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 8 June 2023
• In April, her son Matthieu Pavon is coming to collect it.
  — Jack Bantock, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
• The lens in a 4-inch telescope has a much larger 12-square-inch light collecting area.
  — M. Josh Roberts, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2023
• In the top of the second, Adam Duvall collected the Red Sox’ first hit with a one-out double to left.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
• Hu and his colleagues collect data from the field, but members of the public also play a role.
  — WIRED, 23 June 2023
• All told, App State sent 14 hitters to plate and collected seven hits and four walks.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 27 May 2023
• If the fossils are not collected in time, they can be swept away during the rainy season.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2024
• So once there was a penalty for not providing the data, the BJS was no longer allowed to collect it.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• The statement said the cause was acute subdural hematoma, a condition in which blood collects between the skull and brain.
  — Kiuko Notoya, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• The donkeys pushed a grindstone, while the workers added grain, monitored the process and collected flour.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• Plus, the slide-out tray collects any drippings, keeping your counters mess-free.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 May 2023
• Lemon collected what was left on his CNN salary and began looking at the podcast space for his next move.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
• The teachers had hoped to begin collecting signatures this month and turn them in by June.
  — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• She was contacted and went to the police station to collect her money.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
• There is nothing wrong or amoral about the Cowboys collecting wins against Wilson and Dobbs these next two weeks.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• More than 100 million votes were collected in a global campaign, and the New Seven Wonders of the World were named.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2023
• The sap is then collected into buckets or bags attached to the tree that the children gathered and measured.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024
• Those with birth dates ending in 2 or 3 will collect payments on Thursday.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 12 Oct. 2023
• In the meantime, the musician has been on the road and collecting stories and fairytales to shape into her latest record.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
• First, have your child collect small twigs and bark (tinder), short sticks (kindling), and larger logs (fuel).
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 25 Oct. 2023
• The success of the Ingenuity has led to talk of future helicopters on Mars that will have wheels and be able to collect samples dug by the rovers.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024