collar

collar
01. The bully grabbed the little boy by the [collar], and threw him to the ground.
02. Pollution is so bad in the city that the [collar] of my white shirt is black by the end of the day.
03. He turned up his [collar] as the weather got colder.
04. She was wearing an expensive leather coat with a [collar] of some kind of fur.
05. He grabbed the dog by the [collar] and pulled it out of the house.
06. The dog's [collar] is too tight; she can hardly breathe.
07. We bought a cute little [collar] with our dog's name on it at the pet store.
08. The police [collared] the suspect as he was boarding a train for Manchester.
09. The teacher [collared] the young boy as he was running from the room where he had broken a window.
10. I didn't want to talk about it, but my boss [collared] me at my desk and asked me what had happened.
11. He [collared] her by the water cooler and asked her for a date.
12. As soon as the meeting was over, I [collared] Smithy and asked him what had been decided.
13. There is a little clip on the dog's [collar] for fastening the leash.
14. The cat's [collar] is too loose. It got caught on something and she was able to slip it off.
15. A Japanese proverb notes that a good cat does not need a [collar] of gold.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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