Sentence examples for vanished collecting from inspiring English sources

It is hard not to long for Cornell's longings, imagining him, in a city now largely vanished, collecting his prints and magazines and poems and wandering in somewhere to eat his doughnuts and noting the exact look on the face of a fée waitress and knowing all the while that, if he could just get back on the El to Flushing by five-thirty, he was home free.

Some parrots, parakeets and macaw species, spectacularly plumed and sometimes intelligent enough to provide chatty company for humans, have vanished, collected for use as pets or as fashion accessories.

Here where the water came and went, where it collected and vanished, was where his brother's Party comrades had chosen to put it.

Ostalgie is a phenomenon of memory, a desire to collect and obsess on things that vanished following the reunification of Germany.

Jobs continue to vanish at a rapid pace, with more people collecting unemployment insurance than at any time since the 1982-83 recession.

"They collected treasures that have now virtually vanished from the market," said Philippe Garner, head of Sotheby's decorative arts department in London.

The Beatles and Bill Evans CDs that Komura had been collecting since his bachelor days had also vanished.

Oddly, when Mr. Brown began to collect the letters, he discovered that the originals had vanished.

In A GAP IN NATURE: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals (Atlantic Monthly, $34.95), Tim Flannery has collected the stories of many of the world's now vanished creatures.

The float -- the amount of money the customer could be collecting in interest while the traditional check remains uncashed -- vanishes online.

Had Miley not recorded, collected and preserved many of the great sports moments, they would have vanished.