How to Use collector in a Sentence

collector

noun
  • He is an avid stamp collector.
  • The painting was purchased by a private collector.
  • The trash collectors came early today.
  • Calls, which can be used as a decoy while hunting or as a unique collector’s item.
    Madison Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Besides merch, can beauty products such as Rhode’s cutesy blush become a collector’s item like trainers?
    Avani Thakkar, refinery29.com, 28 Oct. 2024
  • That helped draw an international crowd of collectors and curators.
    Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Scammers will also often imitate someone in authority, such as a tax or debt collector.
    Adriana Morga, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Shop pre-loved offerings for a plethora of hard-to-find vintage styles that are collector worthy, like this chocolate brown quilted Chanel number.
    Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Two guests on board — a fossil collector and a treasure hunter with large audiences on social media — tugged on scuba gear and dropped overboard into the frigid waters.
    Michael Wilson, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • One of the frauds involved selling fake Andy Warhol paintings to an art collector in Los Angeles.
    John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The painting once belonged to Curt Glaser, a Jewish art critic, collector and historian based in Berlin.
    Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The idea is to get collectors out to card shops and reward them with a free pack.
    Michelle Jenkins, Idaho Statesman, 25 Jan. 2024
  • In fact, there's even a world Olympic pin collectors club called Olympin.
    Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 28 July 2024
  • Over the next 150 years or so, collectors like Pugh stripped the region of its ancient past.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • For the keepsake collector Good things are sure to come out of this tiny package.
    Sarah Grossbart, wsj.com, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Of course, being a collector is about more than just the money.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
  • They could be displayed in a living room the way an art collector might stage a Koons.
    Amy Verner, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Dallas is the fastest-growing metro area in the country, with a strong collector base.
    Abigail Ronner, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 May 2023
  • But the majority of collectors were there for the ball pythons.
    Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The germ of the film was from a New York Times article about waste collectors that Ghosh read years ago that stayed with him.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Below are some of the most prominent watch collectors in the world.
    Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 18 June 2024
  • Some of these have sold for four and five-digit sums to eager collectors.
    Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Rubin bought the headdress from a collector, with a briefcase full of cash.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Her day job was as a bill collector, and for a long time, Megan would watch her mother juggling both.
    Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The bourbon collector has a store in both Louisville and Lexington.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 4 June 2023
  • This 41 mm pink-gold piece is major even for the most jaded collector.
    Charles Curkin, ELLE Decor, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Their credit won’t be harmed, they will not be referred to debt collectors, and the threat of default will be off the table.
    Sarah Bedford, Washington Examiner, 4 July 2023
  • The idea was to appeal to fans of the movie, Barbie collectors and fans of the individual artists.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 20 July 2023
  • The main goal of the PSA Vault is to simplify the grading-to-selling process for trading card collectors.
    Dylan Manfre, Sportico.com, 24 June 2024
  • At that time, Beute had filed to run against Greenberg for the tax collector’s position.
    Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2023

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