How to Use colonist in a Sentence

colonist

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  • British colonists settled the area in the 18th century.
  • One recent study proposed that Mars colonists could spread aerogel, an ultralight solid material, on the ground.
    — Sven Bilén, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2024
  • The colonists were soon fed up with the Gaspee and its captain, Lt.
    — Jennifer McDermott, Fox News, 7 June 2018
  • Above is a replica of one of the ships the colonists arrived on.
    — baltimoresun.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Most of the colonists who arrived in Maryland in 1634 aboard the Ark and the Dove were Catholic.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Purves went scot-free, and most of the colonists believed the whole thing was Markham's fault.
    — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2015
  • French-Creole colonists brought the beignet to the city in the 18th century.
    — Lanee Lee, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Its name refers to the belief that just 3 percent of colonists rose up to fight the British.
    — Randall Chase, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • The Three Percenters derives its name from the belief that just 3% of the colonists rose up to fight the British.
    — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2020
  • English and French colonists brought with them iron pots called chaudière in French.
    — Devra Ferst, CNT, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The stones were inscribed with an ongoing saga of the colonists’ demise.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2024
  • Warm breezes, palm trees, gin-swilling colonists in white suits.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The colonists, in the process of becoming Americans, called him a traitor.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 5 July 2017
  • In the case of the colonists, that prize was mountains of diamonds or gold, or a quick passage to Asia.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • The colonists found Squanto unharmed and took him back to Plymouth.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Our colonists taught this lesson to King George, thus leading to the birth of our nation.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 25 July 2019
  • The group’s name stems from the belief that only 3% of American colonists took up arms against the British.
    — Dallas News, 20 July 2019
  • Wamelink and his team aren’t the only ones thinking about how to feed future space colonists.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 Oct. 2019
  • But they won’t be focused on issues like how colonists grow food.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2017
  • The lesson asks the students to answer questions in the perspective of a colonist.
    — Jessica Oh, ajc, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Which monarch reigned over the colonists at the time of the American Revolution?
    — Michelle Hubenschmidt, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 July 2017
  • The Siren Corporation, which put them on the ship, offers its colonists a clean slate.
    — Samantha Nelson, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
  • The very first French colonists landed here before the town was established in 1716.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
  • One reason was that colonists often did not have enough coins to buy food and household items.
    — Jonah Estess, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Waves of Quakers, Germans and descendants of British colonists staked out more routes over the next 200 years.
    — Jayne Orenstein, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
  • In Maryland, the 400-year-old skeleton of a teenage boy turned out to be one of the oldest burials of a colonist ever found in that state.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
  • In the novel, Mickey 7 is a space colonist known as an expendable.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
  • French colonists brought New Orleans into being in the spring of 1718 with a few shacks on a marsh by the mouth of the Mississippi.
    — Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Colonists would cut the tops of pumpkins off, remove the seeds and fill the pumpkins with milk, spices and honey, then bake them in hot ashes.
    — Amanda Hawkins, Good Housekeeping, 24 July 2017
  • For well over half a century, scientists and engineers have been looking for ways to protect future Moon colonists.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 16 July 2024

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