How to Use collective in a Sentence

collective

1 of 2 adjective

• We made a collective decision to go on strike.
• The incident became part of our collective memory.
• One match in, this year’s group has made its collective voice heard.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 5 Sep. 2023
• Listen out for a loud collective crack, as the jaws of a hundred New York parents hit the floor.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Braves pitchers have a collective 3.65 ERA, which ranks third in the majors.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 4 June 2023
• The recognition of the collective artistry in an album has become even more vital than in the past.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
• Munjal is one of many tech entrepreneurs to ping the book world’s radar—and raise its collective hackles—in recent months.
  — Elizabeth Minkel, WIRED, 20 July 2023
• This team is lifeless and listless, right at the time the incentive to be the opposite sits right in front of their collective nose.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
• Angels hitters are batting a collective .253, which ranks fifth in the AL.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 12 Aug. 2023
• The collective obsession with iced coffee is still growing, even in the dead of winter.
  — Peter C. Baker, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• The film puts sisterhood and collective resistance at the forefront of the story.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
• What better way to determine that vibe than with a collective tarot reading to take you into the new year?
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 22 Dec. 2023
• Sticking around as their approval ratings sag is a blow to collective morale.
  — Carolyn Van Houten, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• After Venus enters Pisces on the 11th, your urge to merge with the collective intensifies.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2024
• Their collective start values were high enough that the United States could have finished in the top three if routines were done more cleanly.
  — Will Graves, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
• Italy is the only country in Europe that does not have a collective contract for actors.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 July 2023
• Enfield praised the small group for their collective defense and Ellis’ smart ball movement.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• If the same characters ended up at the same craps table in Vegas and rode a collective winning streak, would that be a triumph against The Man?
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
• This is just a collective measure that has been applied to all Palestinians.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
• The effort to replace his production will have to be collective, but Mathurin can take the biggest chunk out of it by himself.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
• Complaints have been steadily going up in what may be a mass collective delusion.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Aug. 2023
• Other times, a collective roar of motorcycles suggests the Höss household isn’t alone in trying to drown out the horror.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• The film leaves you with the sense that, with greater awareness and collective action, the future for the intersex community can be powerful and bright.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
• The donor collective at the heart of the Tennessee case paid to fly a high school quarterback to campus on a private jet, according to a person familiar with the case.
  — Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• Then suddenly, the telltale crescent of the sun, much of it shaded by the moon, came into sharp focus piercing the cloud cover, and the crowd reacted with a collective cheer.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2023
• The bloc has increased its collective diplomatic effort to pressure the Biden administration to call for a pause or end to the fighting.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2023
• Nothing quite replicates the collective rush of hunger and joy at L.A.’s great streetside taco destinations.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Reviewers who give the book a collective 4.9 stars on Amazon say their favorite part of the book is how colorful and detailed the illustrations are.
  — Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2023
• But the collective exhibits won them an additional showcase, at no cost to themselves.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
• Over the past nearly 46 years, the buddies have amassed a collective five Tony Awards and 23 nominations — Nicholaw for directing and choreography, Barnes for costume design.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024

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collective

2 of 2 noun

• There’s a kind of yearning for the collective across the album.
  — Emma Madden, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2023
• Tickets range from $40 to $80 and more details on the show can be found on the dance collective’s website.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• Around 1980 it was rented by a collective of artists that remained there for more than three decades.
  — Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Ghetto Gastro, the culinary collective flipping the game on its head, is about to do it again.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 1 Aug. 2023
• This time around, the culinary collective isn’t playing small.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 16 June 2023
• Gwar has always been powered by the work of an art collective, The Slave Pit, which builds and repairs the constant flow of new costumes and props.
  — Jackson Landers, SPIN, 10 Apr. 2023
• Angels hitters are batting a collective .256, which ranks fourth in the AL.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 31 July 2023
• Orioles hitters are batting a collective .260, which ranks fourth in the AL.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 7 May 2023
• Orioles hitters are batting a collective .252, which ranks sixth in the AL.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 12 Aug. 2023
• For much of the time since, there was little evidence that the N.C.A.A. was seeking to police these collectives.
  — Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• The space celebrates the works of the Taos Society of Artists, a collective that painted during the first three decades of the 20th century.
  — Nicholas Derenzo, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
• That’s not to say that every suggestion made by the youth collective will be taken as Holy Grail.
  — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 5 July 2023
• Mercosur operates as a collective to set tariffs with the rest of the world.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• The result produced a collective of breakout stars who shined on record, on stage, across TV screens, and on silver screens.
  — Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• In many villages, the land is held by a collective, and the buildings are owned by longtime villagers, many of whom moved out of the neighborhood a long time ago.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• Savvy, who is also a musician, launched the collective in 2017.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2024
• At the same time, a powerful collective is forming in this country with a single goal: to end the death penalty for kids under 18.
  — Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
• Alone, the models and their prowess commanded presence — but as a collective, their force was strong enough to shake up the industry for decades to come.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
• Tyler, the Creator's Odd Future collective is just one of many groups to have defined hip hop in its on-going evolution.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 7 Aug. 2023
• If Harjo owes a debt to predecessors like Glover, he’s also made the form his own through his emphasis on the collective.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• Korine and his multimedia design collective, Edglrd, have now shared a new trailer for the film ahead of a wider release.
  — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 25 Jan. 2024
• Soon, collectives gobbled up the name, image and likeness system.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2023
• The collective’s name is taken from the abbreviation of the Latin phrase Alis volat propriis.
  — Michael Alberty | , oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
• Crabtree-Ireland went on to note this is not the first time Swift’s business ventures have benefitted the collective.
  — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2023
• Maybe what the Elephant 6 collective was all about is really simple.
  — Marc Hogan, Pitchfork, 25 Aug. 2023
• He’s found incredible success both as part of a larger collective and on his own, and now one of his most recent hits has tied a record set by BTS a few years ago.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• In some early communities, the children were raised by the collective and lived in a house where their parents visited them.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
• The exception to this would be if the network/collective is exploiting your IP for TV/film development.
  — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 13 June 2023
• Astros hitters are batting a collective .260, the fourth-best team batting average in MLB play.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 15 Sep. 2023
• South Korean artist Juhyung Lee was inspired to create the project after seeing how collectives can make change during a rally in Seoul in 2015.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024