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Example sentences for: collocations

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

The important contrast is between the bush vegetation in its natural state, country covered in such vegetation, and brush and scrub as subsets of bush on the one hand, and, on the other, country that is naturally open or that has been cleared, an activity which gave the language to burn off as well as short-lived collocations like clearing gang, clearing lease, and clearing party.
In Germany the nearest thing to a straight collocations dictionary is E. Agricola's regularly republished Wörter und Wendungen , written for Germans but highly valuable for foreigners using German at an advanced level.
From a hint given on page 51, one gathers that Kozlowska studied at Edinburgh University; from her facility with the English used in her discussion of collocations, one gains the impression that she has excellent control of the language.
Collocations dictionaries published in Russia for advanced L2 learners of Russian date back a quarter of a century or so and have developed a very high degree of variety and sophistication over the intervening years.
In Great Britain the Cobuild Collocations Dictionary is eagerly awaited.