How to Use collection in a Sentence

collection

noun

• The museum's collection is one of the best in the country.
• There will be a trash collection this week.
• Ten percent of the collection goes to the city's shelters for homeless people.
• We took up a collection for the school renovations.
• The technology makes data collection easier.
• Nakawatase has no idea how much she's spent on her collection through the years.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
• Hextiles can be connected to each other to form a bigger collection of buttons.
  — Adriana Morga, James Brooks, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Jan. 2023
• The Lynn agency offered help through its annual collection of holiday gifts for children in its shelters.
  — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• Grace and Lee play a few rounds of Skee-Ball, a game Lee has mastered, to begin their ticket collection before taking on the claw.
  — Hannah Drown, cleveland, 23 Dec. 2022
• Amidships, a collection of aluminum plates have been folded like paper to create a striking angular superstructure befitting of the ancient art form.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2023
• Still, the original Yayoi Kusama collection was Instagramable before anyone knew what that meant.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Jan. 2023
• This is just one of three 1964 Valiants in his collection, none of which are for sale.
  — David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
• How did this collection get started in the first place?
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 2 June 2023
• When the new center opens, the collection will be publicly available in full for the first time.
  — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
• Sometimes a collection even starts quite like that, and then gets pared down.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
• The full Monarch x VistaPrint collection is available at monarch-sgv.com.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
• The album at times sounds like a collection of fractured love songs.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
• This will give you that time without the risk of being turned over to a collection agency.
  — Lindsey Bever, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2023
• The gown was Reed’s own take on a dress from Lagerfeld’s 1988 haute couture collection.
  — Brittany Natale, Redbook, 3 May 2023
• Prices start at $6, and the complete collection is available for $102.
  — Lauren Phillips, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Mar. 2023
• These first four tracks—a third of the album’s trim collection of twelve—run the gamut of boygenius emotions.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2023
• Colleagues on the ground at the spring 2024 couture collections reported a sense of paring back at the shows.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2024
• The collection was released in early May and will remain in stores through Pride Month, which is June.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
• This would be the most expensive phone in Google’s collection.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2023
• My current music collection has a lot of I have a lot of Roxy Music.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 12 May 2023
• Ziegler said O’Neal was happy to add to his collection on Friday.
  — Andre C. Fernandez, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• That collection put the style's slouchy silhouettes and plaid flannels on the fashion map, Greer said.
  — Kai McNamee, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
• My collection of plaster wall sculptures is my homage to him.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2023
• The jacket featured a fur panel (this suit was from Dior’s fall 1998 collection sourced from Tab Vintage).
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 17 Jan. 2025
• Each collection is written and produced solely by Okereke in his home studio and with minimal tools.
  — Thomas Smith, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 1 Feb 2025