How to Use collector in a Sentence

collector

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  • He is an avid stamp collector.
  • The painting was purchased by a private collector.
  • The trash collectors came early today.
  • The idea is to get collectors out to card shops and reward them with a free pack.
    — Michelle Jenkins, Idaho Statesman, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Over the next 150 years or so, collectors like Pugh stripped the region of its ancient past.
    — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • For the keepsake collector Good things are sure to come out of this tiny package.
    — Sarah Grossbart, wsj.com, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Of course, being a collector is about more than just the money.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
  • They could be displayed in a living room the way an art collector might stage a Koons.
    — Amy Verner, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Dallas is the fastest-growing metro area in the country, with a strong collector base.
    — Abigail Ronner, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 May 2023
  • But the majority of collectors were there for the ball pythons.
    — Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The germ of the film was from a New York Times article about waste collectors that Ghosh read years ago that stayed with him.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Rubin bought the headdress from a collector, with a briefcase full of cash.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Her day job was as a bill collector, and for a long time, Megan would watch her mother juggling both.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The bourbon collector has a store in both Louisville and Lexington.
    — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 4 June 2023
  • Their credit won’t be harmed, they will not be referred to debt collectors, and the threat of default will be off the table.
    — Sarah Bedford, Washington Examiner, 4 July 2023
  • The idea was to appeal to fans of the movie, Barbie collectors and fans of the individual artists.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 20 July 2023
  • The cast and crew spent a lot of time with Kolkata trash collectors to achieve the authenticity that is visible in the film.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The defendants all have connections to the collectors or art world.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The tall, burly Mr. Gilmer frequently hobnobbed with the world’s elite wine collectors and growers.
    — James B. Stewart, New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • Epstein was an avid collector of contacts, the higher placed the better.
    — Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The quality is very good and there is certainly something for all the art collectors.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Scores of collectors are in town from all over the world to attend the fairs as well as check out the many art galleries that have timed openings to what has become known as L.A. Art Week.
    — Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2024
  • It has, until now, been owned by the same European collector who purchased it in 1979 when it was set in a ring by Bulgari.
    — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 2 May 2023
  • The study employed data collectors, who were trained to pose as the father of a 2-year-old child with diarrhea symptoms.
    — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 27 Feb. 2024
  • So, again, back to this co-creation idea that there is a data collector and there’re data subjects.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Oct. 2023
  • This Naruto is the perfect just-little-something for the anime collector in your life.
    — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 18 July 2023
  • The collector who bought it in 1918 had put it in the safe-deposit box in a Midwest bank vault, and their descendants had left it untouched for decades, Trepel said.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Serious collectors sleuth online for hard-to-find species and travel around the country to auctions and plant shows.
    — Hannah Holland, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • The present owners, who are avid art collectors, bought the bespoke property a few years later, in 2009, and put the place through a down-to-the-studs renovation.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Action film collectors can also get the John Wick trilogy is $42 for the Blu-ray set, a savings of 30 percent.
    — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023

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