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.
  • Book a tour of the in-house art collection with the concierge desk.
    — Kim Westerman, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Nakawatase has no idea how much she's spent on her collection through the years.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
  • 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 crevice opening was wide enough to avoid clogs of any sort, and the collection chamber handled it all with ease.
    — Car and Driver, 24 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Pics of Jenna embracing and joking around with the rest of the cast are part of each collection.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The gown was Reed’s own take on a dress from Lagerfeld’s 1988 haute couture collection.
    — Brittany Natale, Redbook, 3 May 2023
  • Dad was commissioned to make a collection of nightwear for Derek Rose.
    — Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Prices start at $6, and the complete collection is available for $102.
    — Lauren Phillips, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Mar. 2023
  • On her wrists were a collection of yellow and white gold bangles.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 8 Oct. 2022
  • This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.
    — Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appétit, 27 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • This container collection from Our Place is made from glass and can go in both the microwave or oven.
    — Sara Coughlin, SELF, 28 Nov. 2022
  • That collection put the style's slouchy silhouettes and plaid flannels on the fashion map, Greer said.
    — Kai McNamee, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
  • This is one item from Lulu and Georgia’s Gibbs collection, which comprises indoor/outdoor dining and accent chairs, a sofa, and a chaise lounge.
    — Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 9 Apr. 2025

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