Example Sentences

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People living in the colonias here are subject to the health effects of environmental hazards.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024

The disparity is more visible in the colonias, mostly unincorporated neighborhoods that often lack such basic services as running water, sewer systems, paved roads and streetlights.

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