How to Use collage in a Sentence

collage

noun
  • We made collages in art class.
  • The album is a collage of several musical styles.
  • The masked nude is a living collage.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2025
  • A lot of great artists not known for their collages made collages.
    — Laura Brown, Artforum, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Maybe create a collage at some point.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This play is sort of like a collage, a portrait, of this time.
    — cleveland, 17 Jan. 2020
  • On a counter near their front door is a photo collage of a girl with a huge smile.
    — oregonlive, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The film is a collage of all of those impulses.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Making a collage or mood board can be a helpful first step in the process.
    — Kristina Rutkowski, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Apr. 2023
  • White shared a side-by-side collage of White as a baby and now as an adult.
    — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
  • Why not make big printouts of the digital collages and call it a day?
    — Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Kelly is going to put all the pics in something of a collage and frame them.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 22 July 2021
  • His life has come to the reader in bits and pieces, a collage, or, like his poems, a cut up.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Tunney paired her suit with a floral collage shirt buttoned to the top.
    — Marissa Muller, WWD, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Lorna had been doing drawings and collages for the last few years.
    — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2025
  • In one of the pics, the young sisters pout in a collage of headshots taken at the beach.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Bust out this bad boy and build a collage of some of the coolest retro posters for some of the greatest films of all time.
    — Ben Flanagan, al, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The scarf collage tops and skinny pants from Celine.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Life is just a collage of memories from many moments.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 14 Nov. 2025
  • To find a collage to remix, tap on the Remix a collage card in the collage tool.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The restaurant’s walls are jet black and covered in a dorm room-style collage of music posters.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Also in the mix are the artist’s own eyes, which peer at the viewer from a corner of the collage.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2021
  • The papers ran a collage of the attending stars.
    — CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The collages are sans stitching, pieces of cloth glued on the underside and then heat fused by an iron.
    — Dennis Hohenberger, courant.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The final snap is a collage of the two and multiple photos of their pets.
    — Nasha Smith, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2022
  • Joan has a way of creating the dreamiest collages.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The walls of her study looked like a collage torn from Birds of America.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 4 May 2021
  • These works are of two main types, both of which fall under the broad category of collage.
    — Benjamin Lima special Contributor, Dallas Morning News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Javelin comes with a 48-page book of art, collages, and essays, all made by Stevens.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The projects include a sculpture, a mixed media collage and a drawing that kids can do.
    — Post-Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2020

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