Amass in a sentence as a verb

A police department, like any organization, is always going to amass all the power/capability it can.

Well I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm surprised that in a centrally-managed, state-controlled, corporatist economic system, the family of the most powerful individual in the nation would have managed to amass great personal wealth.

Amass definitions

verb

collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"

See also: accumulate cumulate conglomerate gather

verb

get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"

See also: collect accumulate compile hoard