COLLECTION in a Sentence

Learn COLLECTION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

385 example sentences for COLLECTION, such as:

1. He has a good collection of CDs.
2. He has a valuable collection of stamps.
3. He has a collection of rare insect specimens.
4. He was giving his collection away for nothing.
5. The painting comes from his private collection.

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 Meanings and Examples of COLLECTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
collection
 n.  request for a sum of money
 n.  the act of gathering something together
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Melanie was on the board of lady managers of the Orphans' Home and assisted in the collection of books for the newly formed Young Men's Library Association.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
2  "As choice a collection of mules in horse harness as you could group together," said Rhett, his voice going into a soft drawl.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  Bonnie, who had watched from the window impatiently all afternoon, anxious to display a mangled collection of beetles and roaches to her father, had finally been put to bed by Lou, amid wails and protests.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
4  Carol caught herself picturing pleasanter reading-rooms, chairs for children, an art collection, a librarian young enough to experiment.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  Her large face, with its disturbing collection of moles and lone black hairs, wrinkled cunningly.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  It was a collection of furnaces, fat-kettles, and oil sheds; and when the works were in full operation certainly gave forth no very pleasant savor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 92. Ambergris.
7  From under the lining he now produced a collection of brilliantly coloured paper figures, several inches high and stiff enough to stand alone.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
8  Over the bookcase hung a photograph of the Tragic Theatre at Pompeii, which he had given me from his collection.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I
9  He had brought a tintype of himself and Rudolph for Antonia's collection, and several paper bags of candy for the children.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
10  Every lawyer learns over and over how strong a motive hate can be, but in my collection of legal anecdotes I had nothing to match this one.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
11  There was no other place for the babies to be, and so part of the preparations for the evening consisted of a collection of cribs and carriages in one corner.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
12  The "Union Stockyards" were never a pleasant place; but now they were not only a collection of slaughterhouses, but also the camping place of an army of fifteen or twenty thousand human beasts.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
13  The advance, with Heyward at its head, had already reached the defile, and was slowly disappearing, when the attention of Cora was drawn to a collection of stragglers by the sounds of contention.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
14  When I reached him he was groping about frantically in the empty cab, and giving vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever I listened to.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
15  You see what a collection I have," said she; "more by half than I ever use or think of.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence: (175 in 12 pages)
16  He has a collection of rare insect specimens.
17  His collection of ancient pottery is turning one hundred pieces.
18  Chris likes music and has a large collection of albums and cassettes.
19  He was giving his collection away for nothing.
20  The museum has a fascinating collection of Celtic artifacts.
21  The council is responsible for refuse collection.
22  The permanent collection is displayed on the first floor, whilst the ground floor houses temporary exhibitions.
23  He has a collection of prehistoric insects preserved in amber.
24  He has a valuable collection of stamps.
25  He has a good collection of CDs.
26  The painting comes from his private collection.
27  She bequeathed her collection of paintings to the National Gallery.
28  Now he's grown up he no longer takes any interest in his stamp collection: he's lost all interest in it.
29  Exhibits include a widely representative collection of railway rolling stock.
30  He bartered his stamp collection for her comics.