I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bunch of flowers
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He gave me a lovely bunch of flowers.
a bunch/set of keys (= a group of keys kept together )
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He took out a huge bunch of keys and unlocked the door.
bunch of grapes
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a bunch of grapes
the pick of the bunch (= the best one )
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There were fifteen candidates for the job, and he was the pick of the bunch .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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This means that a few get top marks, a big bunch get middling marks, and a few come near the bottom.
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She smiled radiantly, and placed a big bunch of flowers next to him.
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On a fruit stall she spied some big bunches of asparagus.
good
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But me third was the best of the bunch .
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Woolwich is the best of the bunch , trading at a multiple to future earnings of 10.3.
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He may be the best of the bunch .
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It's also the best of the bunch for multi-processing, he says.
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Nevertheless as an introduction it is the best of the bunch .
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Either they are one of the best of the bunch at home, or they make their name abroad.
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Even these modest broadcasts show only the best of the bunch .
huge
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He ran, and I was left there on the step with this huge bunch of flowers.
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Then a young man in a blue shirt rushed up to his arriving girlfriend with a huge bunch of hyacinths and daffodils.
large
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Her hand came down on top of a large bunch of them and she felt a sudden stinging pain.
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We also like to use large bunches of basil and other fresh herbs, which impart a unique flavor of their own.
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The specials look like prisons - high walls, barbed wire, electronic doors and large bunches of keys.
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His final purchase was a large bunch of flowers.
small
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Shopping around Hang stems in small bunches in dark airy dry conditions.
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The only embellishment was a small bunch of fresh flowers placed in a vase at her feet.
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She carried a small bunch of flowers.
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A small bunch of fruit falls towards the cloth.
whole
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Behind him on the wall there's this whole bunch of oils.
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There was a whole bunch of yelling on the radios.
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He gave me a whole bunch of flowers for nothing.
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Hank Greenwald said farewell to the Giants Sunday, and a whole bunch of people had that look.
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Since the word got out on Prehistoric I've seen a whole bunch of scripts.
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But he was so strong he might have taken the whole bunch of us.
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The whole bunch were looking more and more like liabilities.
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They know that a whole bunch of famous models would rather go naked than wear fur.
■ VERB
buy
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Never mind, he'd buy her a nice bunch of flowers from that stall outside the infirmary on his way home.
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Coriander looks like flat leaf parsley, but when bought in bunches usually has some of the root attached.
get
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I sold shares and got a bunch of different people to invest in it.
hold
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Apart from fastening the cuttings together, the lead strip acts as a weight to hold the bunch down.
just
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And skinny. just a bunch of bones.
look
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How can you look at a bunch of stars, so far away, and so incomprehensible, without using your imagination?
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I pick flowers so that they look pretty in a bunch and just jam them into a vase.
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They know it makes the state look like a bunch of Neanderthals, with such a barbaric method.
pick
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She picked a bunch of flowers for Alan once.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the best of a bad lot/bunch
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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bunches of fresh grapes
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Has anyone seen a bunch of keys?
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He handed her a huge bunch of roses.
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I bought a kilo of apples and a bunch of grapes.
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Reporters are generally a cynical bunch .
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This wine is the best of the bunch .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another change for the better is that the secretary-general is now equipped with a bunch of good military advisers.
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I need to apply for a bunch of these jobs.
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Joe worshipped her and piled bunches of flowers on her lap.
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Our image as a bunch of bumpkins who roll over for anything that comes down the pike?
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Tammy Bruce was censured by the feminist elite for saying she did not want to deal with a bunch of black women.
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The parents who brought their girls to the Taliaferro bus stop in the morning were a cheery bunch .
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We have a bunch of cheese.
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Years ago, I roasted eight chickens and invited a bunch of people, including Julia Child, to taste them.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
together
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The nuclear membrane has broken down and the condensed chromosomes lie bunched together in the cytoplasm.
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Men, women and babies are detached in small groups or bunched together in fantastic clusters, gesticulating madly.
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Several stems should be bunched together and planted for effect.
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The extra place at the table caused the women to bunch together , bumping elbows.
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The lenses pulled the streets across the river toward him, cut-out terraces bunched together closely as layers of wallpaper.
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Frequently, however, these battles came bunched together .
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The isolation or bunching together of such pupils only provides them with poor role models and intensive interaction with other disturbed children.
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While lower on the slope a group of sheep, seeming to sense his presence, bunched together and moved off.
up
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She bunched up the guilty hand that had slapped Becky and put it under her pillow.
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Her support stockings bunched up around her knees.
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Her white sweatshirt is bunched up and tucked in at the small of her back, so her rear is exposed.
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It bunched up , then slid underwater in the opposite direction.
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The sheep were tearing across the field all bunched up together.
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Forester was staring at the cottages and the cars, his fists bunched up hard, trembling with rage.
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I pushed the door to slowly, silently, crept back down the steps, into the corner and bunched up small.
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Bears, we joke, will get any stragglers, so we bunch up more tightly into swaying, giggling file.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The animals were bunched up along the river.
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The shorts were bunched at the waist.
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The soldiers bunched the prisoners together.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But bunched and shared, they prove valuable to all.
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He bunched it and pulled at it, finally he pleated it between his knuckles, before letting it fall back.
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Her white sweatshirt is bunched up and tucked in at the small of her back, so her rear is exposed.
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She bunched up the guilty hand that had slapped Becky and put it under her pillow.
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Some rivers contained masses of broken bridges, black knots of steel bunched grotesquely at the level of the water.
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The nuclear membrane has broken down and the condensed chromosomes lie bunched together in the cytoplasm.
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You, with your midair dread, blindly bunched into that swinging house you call a home.