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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:

But difficulties begin to become apparent when one investigates her analysis of English collocations.
It is a series of sounds impressed into a kind of semantic slavery, for urltil recently the collocations could do no semantic work on their own in their present form.
It is clear that collocations dictionaries and synonym differentiators may not exist at all in a particular language community: in fact, very few language communities can boast of such resources.
It has to be admitted that there are far too few collocations dictionaries around.
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.