Example sentences for: collections

How can you use “collections” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • BUDGETARY ACCOUNTING - Budgetary accounting is the system that measures and controls the use of resources according to the purposes for which budget authority was enacted; and that records receipts and other collections by source.

  • The museum has collections ranging from minerals and fossils, to medals and coins.

  • It is not easy to distinguish between clichés and what linguists call collocations--that is, collections of words that, while not unanalyzable idioms per se (like red herring, tall order , or take off in the sense of `satirize'), nonetheless seem to fall together with great frequency.

  • Most exciting of its varied collections is a display of photographs showing island scenes from before the devastating 1956 earthquake — the last major one to strike the island.

  • Inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr. built this medieval-style castle to house his early Roman, medieval, and Renaissance collections.


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