Example Sentences

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It accounts for more than 200,000 jobs and has colonized entire neighborhoods.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

Since the first catalogued mosaic of a blue Space Invader went up on a Paris street in 1998, numbered PA_01, Invader has colonized the world.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2024

Servicing residents in the neighborhood, a weekly farmer’s market has colonized the plaza under the flying ribs of Calatrava’s stegosaurus.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2021

Google has colonized more countries than the Ancient Romans.

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2016

What happened between us has colonized every last brain cell.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson