5 examples of collective nouns in sentences

5 examples of collective nouns in sentences

Collective Noun

Collective nouns are words for single things that are made up of more than one person, place, animal, thing, or idea. Words like Flock, Crowd and Staff are collective noun examples. There are lots of collective nouns.

Although the name of English names may seem quite easy at first glance, when you go deeper, you are slowly starting to see how complicated the work. For one thing, sentence usage is sometimes very complicated, so you don’t even know what the name is. As if they are hiding somewhere in the sentence.

Collective nouns, as the name implies, are called names that are collectively given to more than one person or group of objects. Although such names describe more than one person or object, they can be singular or plural, depending on the sentence they are used in.

5 examples of collective nouns in sentences

1. The chamber orchestra, which plays Mozart music, received high marks from the audience.
2. Troupe of yellow howler monkeys are feeding.
3. Jack seems to be a member of a gang.
4. Britney has piles of money.
5. She saw a flock of sheep.

Collective Noun List

• a cluster of coconuts
• a class of students
• a company of actors
• a gaggle of geese
• a haul of fish
• bury/colony/nest/warren of rabbits
• nursery of raccoons
• string of racehorses
• a herd of cattle
• a hive of bees
• a gang of prisoners
• a battery of guns
• a block of flats
• a book of notes
• A gang of slaves
• A gang of thieves
• A gang of criminals
• A gang of crooks
• A gang of hoodlums
• a bouquet of flowers
• a bowl of rice
• a bunch of keys
• a bundle of sticks

• a nest of mice
• a pack of wolves
• a plague of locusts
• a cloud of dust
• a party of friends
• a patrol of policemen
• a posse of policemen
• a regiment of soldiers
• a staff of employees
• a team of players
• a tribe of natives
• a troop of scouts
• a bunch of crocks
• a caravan of gypsies
• a choir of singers
• a class of students
• a zoo of wild animals
• a crowd of people
• an anthology of poems
• a horde of savages
• a bale of cotton
• a basket of fruit
• a batch of bread