Sentence examples for lived in a collection of from inspiring English sources

For centuries the German-speaking people lived in a collection of small, semi-independent states.

Ms. Dugard, 29, and her two children had apparently lived in a collection of ragged tents and sheds secreted behind the Garridos' home, a ranch-style house in a ramshackle neighborhood in an unincorporated area outside Antioch, a Bay Area suburb of 100,000.

This led to conflict with the Illyrians, who lived in a collection of semi-Hellenized kingdoms that covered much of the Balkans and controlled the eastern shore of the sea, resulting in the Illyrian Wars from 229 168 BC.

In Howlwadaag district, more than 120 families live in a collection of ramshackle iron and plastic shelters.

From atop the windswept hill where she and her family live in a collection of mud huts and thatched-roof stalls, she can see two jagueyes – traditional reservoirs dug by Wayuu communities to catch rainwater, when it comes.

I wanted to document everything; the white walls, yellow school busses, the way everything felt like living in a collection of short stories.

— A generation ago, the Shakopee Mdewakanton tribe lived in a motley collection of beat-up trailer homes, melting snow for bath water when wells froze over because they lacked indoor plumbing.

He told officers that he had been targeted with false claims by blackmailers, and said: "I have up in Yorkshire, where I live in Leeds, a collection of senior police persons who come to see me socially, but I give them all my weirdo letters".

For the latter part of his life, Albee lived among a collection of modern art in a TriBeCa loft with his partner of 35 years, Jonathan Thomas, a sculptor who died in 2005.

One came from ABC: David Lynch's bizarre soap opera "Twin Peaks". The others were from the upstart Fox Broadcasting: "The Simpsons," with its blue-collar antics performed in animation, and "In Living Color," a collection of comedy sketches bursting with hip-hop satirical sass.

This fall, Contrasto released "Writers: Literary Lives in Focus," a collection of two hundred and fifty portraits of literary greats by some of the most heralded photographers of the twentieth century.