COLLECTIVE in a Sentence

Learn COLLECTIVE 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 COLLECTIVE, such as:

1. We need to collect more data before we can do any more work.
2. This man is still needed to justify the final collective act.
3. It's amazing how people collect so much stuff over the years.
4. Please collect your purchases from the customer collection point.
5. The upstanding citizen was able to make a collect call to his wife.

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 Meanings and Examples of COLLECTIVE
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collective
 a.  common; assembled into or viewed as a whole
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Their ships had been burned, there was no salvation save in collective flight, and on that the whole strength of the French was concentrated.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER X
2  This man is still needed to justify the final collective act.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
3  Power is the collective will of the people transferred, by expressed or tacit consent, to their chosen rulers.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IV
4  The theory that this connection is based on the transference of the collective will of a people to certain historical personages is an hypothesis unconfirmed by the experience of history.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER V
5  Whatever happens and whoever may stand at the head of affairs, the theory can always say that such and such a person took the lead because the collective will was transferred to him.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER V
6  Such is the reply historians who assume that the collective will of the people is delegated to rulers under conditions which they regard as known.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER V
7  Of all the combinations in which men unite for collective action one of the most striking and definite examples is an army.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VI
8  Just the same is done by a concourse of people, allowing those who do not take a direct part in the activity to devise considerations, justifications, and surmises concerning their collective activity.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VII
9  Their collective appearance had left on me an impression of high-born elegance, such as I had never before received.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  The collective appearance of the gentlemen, like that of the ladies, is very imposing: they are all costumed in black; most of them are tall, some young.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  She was soon the centre of a group which increased and renewed itself as the circulation became general, and the individual comments on her success were a delightful prolongation of the collective applause.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
12  And under her sense of the collective indifference came the acuter pang of hopes deceived.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
13  One morning it drew itself up before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, of the citizen to liberty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
14  The general life of the human race is called Progress, the collective stride of the human race is called Progress.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
15  There was never a sight of a real man except when the commissary troop under Suellen's middle-aged beau, Frank Kennedy, rode by every month to collect supplies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (175 in 12 pages)
16  It seems reasonable to assume Fedorov will collect it, despite the danger.
17  Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.
18  The upstanding citizen was able to make a collect call to his wife.
19  He arranges to collect the payment from the customer, thus saving the client the paperwork.
20  Please collect your purchases from the customer collection point.
21  We need to collect more data before we can do any more work.
22  The first step is to collect solid data that define which students have difficulty completing school assignments.
23  After the kill the men and old women collect in an open space and eat a meal of whale meat.
24  As soon as he finished reading the collect letter, he flew into a rage and tore it into pieces.
25  If you collect ten coupons from the newspaper, you can get a free beach towel.
26  I've come to collect my tickets - I reserved them by phone yesterday in the name of Tremin.
27  On presentation of the relevant identity documents you may collect your property.
28  It's amazing how people collect so much stuff over the years.
29  Clayton remains convinced this scar is due to an experimental operation to collect his DNA.
30  They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone.