had colonized
- past perfect of colonize.
Example Sentences
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Only later, after they had colonized diverse habitats and diversified into a plethora of species, did some lose this exploratory tendency.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024
The team was able to model only the final leg of the drift path based on the smallest barnacles that had colonized the flaperon.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 23, 2023
“Obviously, Malta was a colony, too, so there are people who also remember that Britain had colonized us,” said former President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2022
Some of the fish escaped, however, and by the 1980s they had colonized many waterways of the Mississippi River basin, including the Illinois and Missouri Rivers.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Wiwor’s highlanders are probably descended from an early wave that had colonized New Guinea from Asia by 40,000 years ago.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
