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Example sentences for "colonized"

Lexicographically close words:
colonists; colonization; colonizationists; colonizations; colonize; colonizer; colonizers; colonizing; colonnade; colonnaded
  1. Leif discovered on his expeditions a rich fertile land in the West, which on account of the vines growing wild there he called =Vineland=, and this region was subsequently colonized from Iceland.

  2. Greenland=, too, which had been discovered by a distinguished Icelander, Eric the Red, and had then been colonized in A.

  3. Agira was not colonized by the Greeks until Timoleon drove out the last tyrant in 339 B.

  4. Except along this sea-board, which was colonized directly from Asia, Arab progress southward was stopped by the broad belt of dense forest which, stretching almost across the continent somewhat south of 10 deg.

  5. The province of Numidia was at first colonized principally by the military settlements of the Romans.

  6. It probably was originally a Thracian town, but was afterwards colonized by Milesians.

  7. They had been colonized in the preceding century, by some poor families from Peloponnesus and Ionia.

  8. Most irises thrive best in a rather moist soil, and some of them may be colonized in the water in margins of ponds.

  9. This has been extensively colonized in large grounds by being removed from the wild in carload lots.

  10. In our long hot seasons, the alpine-garden may be expected to be dormant during much of the summer, unless other rock-loving plants are colonized in it.

  11. The little wild wind-flowers are easily colonized in a hardy border.

  12. At a still further distance lay the island of Issa, which was colonized from Syracuse.

  13. The West India islands were settled and colonized by European States simultaneously with the settlement and colonization of the American continent.

  14. Do you know why that planet was so extensively colonized by the Federation, when there don't seem to be any fissionable ores?

  15. Of course, Marduk had a population of almost two billion, and had been civilized, with no hiatus of Neobarbarism, since it had first been colonized in the Fourth Century.

  16. From it, their grandchildren had colonized Joyeuse and Durendal and Flamberge; Haulteclere had been colonized in the next generation from Joyeuse, and Gram from Haulteclere.

  17. It was one of the last planets the Federation colonized before the Big War.

  18. About the year 367, Dionysius occupied and colonized the port of Lissus and island of Issa on the Illyrian coast, and the ports of Ancona, Numana, and Atria, on the coast of Italy.

  19. This is the narrative, of which we already know the first line: "There was originally at Babylon a multitude of men of foreign race who had colonized Chaldea, and they lived without order, like animals.

  20. It is not Berosus alone who speaks of the "multitudes of men of foreign race" who colonized Chaldea "in the beginning.

  21. The Independents in particular were harshly treated, so that many fled to Holland, where there was religious toleration for all; and from this branch of the Separatists came the Pilgrims, who first colonized New England.

  22. Grenada and the Grenadines, colonized by the French, first came into English possession under the treaty of 1763.

  23. There may easily have been early voyages to the American mainland south of Davis Straits by the hardy Norse seamen colonized in Iceland and Greenland, and it is probable that there were numerous adventures of that sort.

  24. Several years before the period of which we are speaking, the French Government had colonized the Falkland Islands, lying off the eastern coast of Patagonia.

  25. The Portuguese and Dutch colonized the coasts and islands of India, Spain sent Cortez and Pizarro to Mexico and Peru, and England drove the Puritans across a stormy sea to Plymouth.

  26. Eleven years later, a navigator named Ingolf colonized the country, the colonists, many of whom belonged to the most esteemed families in the North, establishing a flourishing republic.

  27. Roggewein was of opinion that the island might be colonized to advantage, as the air was wholesome and the soil rich: the low lands seemed fitted to produce corn, and the higher grounds well adapted to vineyards.

  28. The western part of Mitanni and the most of northern Syria had been colonized by the Hittites.

  29. In every district colonized by the early representatives of the Mediterranean race, the goddess cult came into prominence, and the gods and the people were reputed to be descendants of the great Creatrix.

  30. County Antrim and sailed in their curraghs across the narrow sea that separates it from the Mull of Cantire, whence they colonized Islay, Jura, and Iona, and other Scottish islands, where their direct descendants still live.

  31. The first island conquered and colonized by the Spaniards was Sebu.

  32. Adelantado Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, as above-said, discovered the islands, colonized them, and made a good beginning in the work of pacification and subjugation.

  33. The rovers who first chastened and finally colonized southern England and Normandy were certainly Danes.

  34. Gumenek), an ancient city of Pontus, said to have been colonized from Comana in Cappadocia.

  35. Paches then gave up Notium to the Colophonians not of the Median party; and settlers were afterwards sent out from Athens, and the place colonized according to Athenian laws, after collecting all the Colophonians found in any of the cities.

  36. But as soon as Minos had formed his navy, communication by sea became easier, as he colonized most of the islands, and thus expelled the malefactors.

  37. This Argos and the rest of Amphilochia were colonized by Amphilochus, son of Amphiaraus.

  38. Next they enslaved Scyros, the island in the Aegean, containing a Dolopian population, and colonized it themselves.

  39. They afterwards sent settlers of their own to Potidaea, and colonized it.

  40. As, however, the negroes can only be colonized by their own consent, we should therefore, and as an act of humanity and justice, open all suitable homes abroad for their free choice.

  41. They believed that a great deluge overwhelmed the world and drowned all men except Drayan and Droyvach, who escaped in a boat, and colonized Britain.

  42. We're expanding so rapidly, what with the increasing birth rate on Terra and the other colonized planets, that we already and always need more room.

  43. Besides, it would take at least a month to get back to the nearest colonized planet," Jon took up the explanation.

  44. They've already colonized planets worse than this, as far as temperature and air are concerned.

  45. Other spaceships plied between Terra and the many newly discovered worlds that were being colonized by Earth people.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colonized" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    occupied; populous; settled