Sentence examples for accumulating a collection from inspiring English sources

My father had studied in Scotland and traveled the world as a commercial pilot, accumulating a collection of record albums; my mother was a fashionable, intelligent teacher who loved parties and dancing.

From ceremonial regalia to papoose carriers, from sacred weavings to towering totems, from long rows of dugout canoes to bow-and-arrow armories, a business tycoon named George Gustav Heye spent more than half a century accumulating a collection that is stunning both for its quality, touched with peerless beadwork and gold crafting, and for its volume.

The Van Dyck and Severn accumulated a collection of storefronts to match the din of traffic roaring by along Amsterdam Avenue.

In the early Nineties, their empire grew as they accumulated a collection of cut-price buildings with high rental returns.

It is principally through Wieland's efforts that Yale accumulated a collection of 1,000 specimens, considered to be the world's largest collection of cycadeoids.

He's accumulated a collection of swords and armour from his various roles in historical and fantasy movies such as Solomon Kane and Clash Of The Titans, but doesn't have anywhere to display them.

Columbia University was one of the recipient libaries, and during the 1970s and early 1980s, it accumulated a collection of more than 5,000 volumes, the core resource when the University appointed Dr. Robert Thurman professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in 1989.

Family and friends gathered in Charleston, S.C., on Friday for the funeral of the New York-based artist Merton D. Simpson, a painter and pioneering champion of African art who accumulated a collection said to be worth millions of dollars.

Having accumulated a collection of illustrative material of great richness and extent, he brought out in 1871 the first volume (Romeo and Juliet) of the variorum edition, designed to represent and summarize the textual, critical, and annotative conclusions of the best authorities.

Bal has accumulated a collection of some of his most notable tableaus into a card collections.

Although apoptotic blebs certainly accumulate a collection of important 'Eat-me' factors such as PS and C1q, they also appear to be rich in auto-antigens frequently associated with autoimmune disorders such as SLE.