Example Sentences

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She said that while targeted sanctions against individuals were "important" symbolically, they have "no impact on the rate of settlement expansion" or on "the scale of settlers' violence".

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

"Fear is natural," Brahim had told me, looking up at the ridge where tarpaulin flapped at the settlers' lookout post in front of a few caravans and makeshift homes.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2025

In the book’s final chapter, on climate change, Selby juxtaposes early settlers’ primitive or nonexistent means of forecasting the weather with today’s mind-blowing technologies.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024

More than a century ago, grizzly bears roaming California’s coasts and forests had gained a fearsome reputation for attacking European settlers’ livestock.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 9, 2024

That must have been what the settlers’ wives thought, and women who survived wars, if they had a man.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood