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How to use collection in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Collection means a set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together. Example: “The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.”

Examples of collection by meaning

nounA set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.

  • The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
  • The asteroid belt consists of a collection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.
  • This year's Summer Collection will include a wide range of evening wear.

nounA set of pitch classes used by a composer.

  • In fact, students are often taught that specific collections—diatonic, octatonic, and whole-tone, etc.—typify these composers' compositional language.2009, Brian Moseley, “Form and Transpositional Combination in George Crumb's Lux Aeterna”, in Bruce Quaglia, Jack Boss, editors, Musical...
  • Simply put, the realm of available collections in a largely diatonic environment is much smaller than it is in truly atonal one.2012, Marguerite Boland, John Link, Elliott Carter Studies, page 22

nounThe activity of collecting.

  • Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.

nounA gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.

  • When someone's house burned down, when someone was in the hospital, they took up collections for the people.1976 February 7, Rose Flower, quoting Jimmy McGrath, “Playland: The Friendliest Place In Town”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32...

More sentences with collection

  • I have a collection of books on metaphysics, covering astral projection, reincarnation, and communication with spirits.From the entry metaphysics
  • My neighbour is such a bore when he talks about his coin collection.From the entry bore
  • The store on Eighth Street is showing the new spring collection in the window.From the entry show
  • A valuable collection of silver plate was donated to the museum.From the entry plate
  • Most of my collection is near mint, but these ones here are mint.From the entry mint
  • It started as a hobby, but now my motorbike collection has become my passion.From the entry passion
  • I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.From the entry tag
  • My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time.From the entry invention
  • The extreme humidity decayed the wooden sculptures in the museum's collection in a matter of years.From the entry decay
  • He donated an etching from his own collection to the new art gallery.From the entry donate
  • The butterfly collection had each specimen labeled with the scientific name on a little piece of paper.From the entry labeled
  • He is a Scottish nationalist and has a large collection of separatist literature.From the entry separatist
  • In one shoebox he had a whole collection of seeds he had saved from last year.From the entry shoebox
  • The most highlighting part of the case study is research, collection and analysis of data.From the entry highlighting
  • Avery was an avid whittler, and had a collection of intricately carved walking-sticks that few could match.From the entry whittler
  • Her uncle had a large beer can collection showing a lot of regional brewing history.From the entry beer can
  • A stereotaxic atlas is a collection of sections of the brain with coordinates for stereotaxic surgery.From the entry stereotaxic
  • The existing collection of paintings will be rehoused in the new gallery.From the entry rehouse
  • He has an impressive collection of bicycling paraphernalia, but he doesn't ride very often anymore.From the entry paraphernalia
  • I don't have a library as such, but I do have quite a large collection of books.From the entry as such
  • The manga fan was disturbingly proud of his extensive ecchi collection.From the entry ecchi
  • I re-encoded my digital music collection at a lower bitrate to save disk space.From the entry re-encode
  • These stamps have been used postally, but are still fit for a collection.From the entry postally
  • Police believe that the painting was stolen to order for a private collection.From the entry to order
  • My record collection is sorted alphabetically by song title, but I've also cross-indexed it by artist.From the entry cross-index
  • The enormous collection of manuscripts from the Library of Alexandria is lost to history.From the entry lost to history
  • His collection takes a lot of space.From the entry take
  • “My magic will help you find true love,” said the witch as she looked for the right herbs in her collection.From the entry magic
  • This collection will form the nucleus of a new library.From the entry nucleus
  • He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.From the entry will
  • My notebook has turned into a random collection of thoughts.From the entry random
  • Everyone needs to chip in £1 for George's leaving collection.From the entry chip
  • Russia is a large country. The fruit-fly has large eyes for its body size. He has a large collection of stamps.From the entry large

Meaning of collection

  1. noun A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
  2. noun A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
  3. noun The activity of collecting.

Full definition of collection

Questions about collection in a sentence

How do you use collection in a sentence?
Collection is used as a noun. For example: “The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.”
What is a short sentence with collection?
“Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.”
What does collection mean?
Collection means a set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: collection (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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