Sentence examples for a collation from inspiring English sources

They are a collation of various manuscripts that may have been altered by scribes over time.

This was a collation and revision of earlier texts and displays a remarkable sophistication and urbanity.

The regiment's French chefs had prepared their best dishes for a light afternoon meal called a "collation".

THEY gathered to eat a "collation of oven trumpery" at the invitation of Jacob Tonson, a publisher and bookseller.

A separate report from accountants BDO suggested that business confidence had dropped to a three-year low based on a collation of existing surveys taken in recent weeks.

The cons: As well as being prone to crash Microsoft Excel at 84MB for the full sheet, the database is a collation of a huge range of sources.

In Sykes's world, the day after invariably becomes "on the morrow"; a buffet lunch is a "cold collation"; while the latter sections of the book in particular are less than scintillating as Sykes cuts his losses with television and settles into life as a national treasure.

The Action of 3 February 1812 was an unusual minor naval engagement off the western coast of Haiti between a British frigate and a large pirate ship manned by a loose collation of Haitian rebels.

After the address, the crowd retired to the Horticultural Hall, where a palm frond that had rested on Humboldt's coffin was displayed and, in the words of a Times correspondent, "an elegant collation was served".

E. J. invites us to the First Sufi Church of Christ for a modest collation of baloney and Armagnac.

Updated at 9.53pm GMT 2.00pm GMT Estimates of species diversity The Global Biodiversity Information Facility is a wonderful collation of life from across the globe.