Sentence examples for collect were from inspiring English sources

Petrol (gasoline) taxes, easy to administer and collect, were directed into the federal Highway Trust Fund.

Under the program, which university lobbyists helped push through, the state now pays New Haven 75percentt of what it would collect were educational institutions taxed.

He opened a school, but to judge from the photos the young women he was able to collect were mostly rather plump and bewildered.

MR. BERNSTEIN: We are cognizant that the situation was ripe for people to feel like we weren't serving them, and we tried to do whatever we could reasonably do to help our customers — and be very conscious of the fact even the customers we were calling to collect were often good people having tough times.

Funds that she helped to collect were used to buy a river launch, called Alexandra, to ferry the wounded during the Sudan campaign, and to fit out a hospital ship, named The Princess of Wales, to bring back wounded from the Boer War.

Tissues to collect were selected based on the known location of TB lesions in this species [9], [12], [13].

"Collect" is another word for it, or "sample".

"Click and collect is in the psyche of the consumer.

"Online and click & collect is our convenience solution," he said.

Now the only thing I collect is bills.

Fares collected were £1,080m or 50p per journey.