Example Sentences

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Las Vegas, he wrote, was a town blessedly “bereft of dead white walls, gray wool carpets, Ficus plants and Barcelona chairs,” the establishment furniture of an establishment art world that was colonizing every global continent.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2021

“The perception was that Ethiopia was colonizing the country,” Ahmed Sahid, who runs Somali Family Service, a nonprofit in San Diego, told me.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 19, 2015

While the mighty plants were being built and the processes studied to make them run, another team of physicists was colonizing still another desert.

From Time Magazine Archive

The snow was colonizing her, breath by breath.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu