colonist

How to use colonist in a sentence

• Future lunar colonists could use this water to make breathable oxygen, drinkable water, and perhaps most important, rocket fuel.

  This is what NASA wants to do when it gets to the moon | Neel Patel | December 9, 2020 | MIT Technology Review

• Months passed and the promised rescue ship with fresh supplies and more colonists never appeared.

  The Woman Who Survived Two Years Alone in the Arctic | Fiona Zublin | December 9, 2020 | Ozy

• Later, the colonists dug up some graves and robbed some food caches.

  How the Mayflower Story Fits Into Native American History | David Treuer | December 8, 2020 | Time

• That’s true even though, for the colonists and their descendants, 1620 was not much more than a blip in colonial history.

  How the Mayflower Story Fits Into Native American History | David Treuer | December 8, 2020 | Time

• Initially when the Mayflower arrived in Patuxet, which the passengers later renamed Plymouth, the relationship between the colonists and the Wampanoag was one of co-existence.

  400 Years After the Mayflower Set Sail, a New Exhibit Acknowledges the U.K.'s Impact on Native American Communities | Suyin Haynes | September 16, 2020 | Time