Collocations for "formed"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "formed" in context.
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form
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [a tax, an application, a request, a contact, a consent, an intake] form
- [an online, a paper, a digital] form
- a [blank, new, completed] form
- the [appropriate, proper] forms
- fill out [a, the, this] form
- fill in [a] form
- fill the form [in, out]
- sign the form
- [hand, turn] in the forms
- [send, return] the (completed) form
- a [long, short] form
- a form of [government, payment, energy]
- is a form of [flattery, abuse, cruelty]
- is just another form of [racism, bullying]
- [love, happiness, abuse] comes in many forms
- [Dick] is a short form of (the name) [Richard]
- [water, gas, fiber] in another form
- takes [another, a different] form
- [heroin, alcohol, altruism] in its purest form
- in human form
- a [square, circular] form
- a [blurry, shadowed] form
- could [see, make out] a [blurry] form
- form [and, before, over] function
- you're really on form [today, tonight]!
- on [top, great, excellent] form
- in [peak, poor, excellent, good] form
- their recent form [suggests, shows]
- UK: studies in the [fourth, fifth] form
- UK: the form [tutor, teacher]
- a form letter
- the most in-form [team, player]
- form [a club, an organization, an alliance, a partnership, committee, band]
- was formed in [January, 1950]
- formed to [provide, promote, develop, support, address]
- form the [clay, sand, mold]
- form (it) into [bowls, figures, balls]
- formed into [an elephant, a pot]
- shaped and formed
- formed [three] new [sections, parts, chapters]
- formed the basis [for, of]
- form an [opinion, theory]
- [newly, recently] formed
- [well, completely] formed
- is forming a new
- form a line
- formed the [cadets, soldiers] into line
- UK: form an orderly queue
- [ice, condensation] formed on the [window, mirror]
'formed' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):