Want to use Collecting correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like collection or assembling.
Collecting meaning
A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.
Synonyms of Collecting
Example sentences (20)
After collecting these ingredients, head to a nearby cooking station and put them in a pot to make Mint Boba Tea.
A group of Timnath residents are collecting signatures for a ballot measure that will ban fences taller than 65 feet.
Collecting the kick-off, their No.8 drove hard into the Medway 22 and in the space of a minute had won back the lead.
After collecting the key to the car, umped around excitedly as she checked it out, and her people captured the moment.
But the hospital said the morgue was overcrowded because of family members not collecting bodies in "a timely manner".
He could often be seen anywhere between 93 Mile to Buffalo Creek pushing his cart and collecting cans and recyclables.
Any organisation collecting personal information must prioritise privacy before allowing data to be processed, Pesce says.
Collecting water from wells is passed on from generation to generation, especially among women and girls in the rural villages.
Eventually, Lynch joined Gilbert’s store and brought his passion for collecting retro games in as well.
He also enjoyed riding his Harley, watching the Green Bay Packers, and collecting wildlife art prints.
Abbie explained that they don’t have a final total for the money raised just yet, as some are still collecting their sponsor money.
Exploration has far more importance than just collecting resources, especially for completionists.
Argo won Best Picture at the 2013 Academy Awards, with Affleck collecting a trophy as a producer.
Ernest and his truck trailer he purchased through collecting cans and asking friends to help out.
At Western University, Lauren Sano leads a stem cell club, collecting mouth swabs from possible donors of different ethnic backgrounds.
After collecting the quest, head back through the green double doors of the Abandoned Factory, turn right, and go through the iron door.
At Freshwater Habitats Trust, we’ve been mapping spawn sightings and collecting data on breeding frogs and toads for more than a decade.
As such, nickel is capable of fully collecting all 6 PGE elements from ores, and of partially collecting gold.
He said he is one of about 12 people circulating petitions with the goal of collecting enough signatures to spur the election on the project.
Collecting evidence of the dictatorship’s atrocities was dangerous, heartbreaking work.
Phrases with collecting
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Common combinations with collecting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- collecting the 19×
- and collecting 16×
- of collecting 12×
- for collecting 9×
- after collecting 8×
- the collecting 6×
- collecting data 5×
- in collecting 5×
- was collecting 5×
- collecting and 5×
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