Example Sentences

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The immigrant population in the colonias has limited English proficiency, health literacy levels, and income, and lower levels of formal education.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024

Today, an estimated 840,000 people live in colonias, in housing ranging from modern-looking suburban houses to partially built shacks.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2023

The problem hits hard in Appalachia, as well as in central Mississippi and Alabama, the colonias along the Texas-Mexico border, the Navajo Nation in the Southwest, and California’s Central Valley.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2021

Father explained: It was our word, colonias, the one we sometimes used for neighborhoods, and Tía Rosa still said it.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2020

Vnde hi in Islandiam, antea quidem à quibusdam visam et inuentam, at desertam tamen, colonias, dicto Superius Anno 874. transtulerunt: Atque sic genti nostræ originem præbentes, se Islandos nuncuparunt, quod nomen hodiè posteri retinent.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard