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Example sentences for "collectable"

Lexicographically close words:
collator; collators; colleague; colleagues; collect; collected; collectedly; collectedness; collectible; collecting
  1. Such collectable objects as already suggested should be arranged in a room furnished in similar style to that prevailing at a time when these metal curios were in daily use.

  2. The multiplicity of collectable objects needed to supply collectors makes the uninitiated wonder where all these antiques come from.

  3. Chemical methods of lighting fires and striking lights have been tried with more or less success, and among the collectable curios are relics of these early attempts to produce fire and light by scientific methods.

  4. It would appear as if most of the collectable copper goods were made after the days when the old guilds so carefully controlled the making of copper and latten in Lothbury.

  5. From that time onward collectable brasses were made, and after long years of use they passed into the category of antiques, rendered beautiful by their artistic merits, and possibly by the touch of age.

  6. The collectable curios in metal include many which cannot be classified.

  7. Betel-nut cutters, similar to those from other parts of India, are among the collectable curios, those from Ceylon being especially interesting, for they frequently take the form of animals or of winged flying females.

  8. The per-centage of water of drainage from land under-drained with tile, would be greater than that which is collectable in reservoirs from ordinary gathering-grounds.

  9. Why carry as bills collectable accounts which you have been assured, for years, would never be paid?

  10. The latter are collectable on presentation.

  11. As a generous contributor to our treasury says in a letter just received, “Resolutions of annual meetings are not collectable taxes.

  12. Among the collectable curios of old households are many antiquities from foreign lands.

  13. It is almost the commonest collectable antique in this particular group.

  14. Perhaps some day blotters, blotting pads, and the like, may become collectable curios!

  15. The lace-maker, and the housewife who occupied her leisure moments in lace-making, left behind many collectable curios.

  16. The firebacks and the andirons, and later the fire-dogs, of the open fireplaces are collectable curios of considerable interest, and the hobby may be indulged in at a moderate cost.

  17. The table appointments are among the collectable curios of the library, and prominent among these is the inkstand.

  18. The collector in search of a small group of collectable curios finds the watch key an excellent variety on which to specialize.

  19. To take the last one first, diversion of whole wastes as received from their sources is a total and dramatic means of coping with a pollution problem stemming from collectable wastes, but it often has disadvantages.


  20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collectable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.