Example sentences for: collective

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

  • I do have one more somber thought, though, because I really am troubled about this, even though I can see no way to let off even a tiny rant without personally contributing to the very problem of which I speak: I do believe the press, and in particular the broadcast press, took leave of its collective senses last weekend when that little plane disappeared--surely not the first time such a thing has happened, but I am afraid that the net result, following day after day of relentless, nonstop, overblown, breathless, self-referential, nearly entirely content-free coverage, has been the transformation of a single publicly shared tragedy into something venomous.

  • After a hair-raising and chaotic collective attempt to retrieve the boy, a sudden gust of wind lifts the men into the air; the others drop away, but Logan, a local doctor and father of two, holds on as the unburdened balloon shoots suddenly skyward.

  • What does our "collective will" call for?

  • Kaufman and Jonze end up sentimentalizing the longing for a collective consciousness in a way I found creepy: Do they mean to be retelling Invasion of the Body Snatchers from the body-snatchers' point of view?

  • For the ILGWU, standardizing wages required regulation through collective bargaining of the network of contractors and “submanufacturers” working for jobbers and manufacturers.


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