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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:

One of the features of this style was the alliterating, punning phrase, often used as a headline--wasted wowsers vied with watery wowsers and indeed with weird and worried wowsers, and the exercise was often carried to extremes--witness collocations like pious, Puritanical, pragmatical, pulpit-pounding self-pursuers whom we call wowsers, or bald-headed, bad-breathed, bible-banging bummer, who ought to be banged with a bowser.
The important feature is openness, as in collocations like open forest, open forest country, and open forest land.
This article is concerned with the first fifty years of settlement, 1788-1838 and begins with the two collocations Crown land and waste land , which sometimes coalesce in the uniquely Australian waste lands of the Crown.
But difficulties begin to become apparent when one investigates her analysis of English collocations.
In Great Britain the Cobuild Collocations Dictionary is eagerly awaited.