6 sentences with 'collect'

Example sentences and phrases with the word collect and other words derived from it.

« Other cyber moguls like to collect airplanes and boats, but she doesn't even own a car: she uses the subway. »
« Belgian agents would enter a village and take women and children hostage, ordering the men to go into the jungle and collect a certain amount of rubber. If they did not reach the rubber quota in time, or sometimes even if they did, the agents would cut off the children's arms, rape or murder the women, or sometimes just murder everyone in the village outright. »
« As a long-distance operator, I often have to make collect calls requested by inmates at a penitentiary. »
« the young daughter of a friend of mine was trying to telephone her mother on a collect call. »
« In August, Bobbie learned that a life insurance policy provided to Louisville teachers entitled her to a modest sum on the death of a family member. To collect, she needed a copy of the death certificate. »
« And what does a Black Mass look like? It is difficult to collect data in that sense, but history gives us coincidental versions. »
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