Example Sentences

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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

In just 50 years, the animals had colonized an area roughly 13 times larger than their native European range, a rate faster than any other introduced mammal, including pigs and cats.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 21, 2022

Ms. Kawasaki had traveled to the North as part of a resettlement program that was run by Pyongyang and facilitated by Japan, which had colonized the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022

I explained to him how different groups of birds had colonized New Guinea over the course of millions of years.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond