- present participle of collect.
collecting
Example Sentences
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It was the day Georgina and Charles Barnes had waited three years for - collecting the keys to their first home.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
In addition, the museum’s curators tended to be specialized in material culture — collecting and studying the museum’s several million objects and artifacts — rather than in conceptual storytelling.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
His molds, based on the form of a lion sculpture in the British Museum, delve into the politics of collecting and ponder what is lost when cultural artifacts are centralized in institutions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Over several months and multiple trips, Lee drove across the country collecting the G3s in their core five colors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Gran had already said it was okay if I borrowed some of his CDs collecting dust in the garage.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
