collection
Example Sentences
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Tax collection, after all, doesn’t stop when services are interrupted.
They burst into the next room—a gold-painted drawing room, with a hole in the ceiling and chewed-looking curtains—and then into a room full of maps, with a collection of globes stained with dust.
From Literature
“Of course not. I needed weight. Convincing weight. I loaded my suitcase with the old cricket bats”—my voice drops in volume—“and maybe your rock collection.”
From Literature
To investigate these questions, Bailey is analyzing gray wolf teeth from museum collections and recently deceased animals using stable-isotope techniques.
From Science Daily
Though it wasn’t the sparsely green terrain or occasionally snowcapped mountains that caught his eye, it was instead the historic collection of white domes and solar towers that make up the Mount Wilson Observatory.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
