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How To Use collect In A Sentence

• The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.
• Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
• After a day of collecting ones and fives and nickels and quarters, it strangely looked like a lot of money.
• This enables more active forms of mobilization, with many memberships engaged in various forms of collective action, often for the first times in their history.
• Individuals are expected to act on behalf of the collective whole, and the corporate body is expected to act in the normative interests of its members.
• Most rural stations had a staff of at least six, and perhaps up to a dozen, who them carried out the duties of stationmaster, signalman, booking clerk, ticket collector, porter, shunter, lengthman and lampman.
• Also, it is difficult to get across diagrammatically the iterative nature of grounded theory - in particular its commitment to the idea that data collection and analysis occur in parallel.
• A business tycoon, arts patron and committed left-winger, Berge opted to sell the collection amassed over a lifetime after Saint Laurent's death last June aged 71.
• The true university of these days is a collection of books. 
• It'll be difficult to get past the ticket collector without paying.