How to Use colonist in a Sentence

colonist

noun

• British colonists settled the area in the 18th century.
• For well over half a century, scientists and engineers have been looking for ways to protect future Moon colonists.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 16 July 2024
• The colonists were soon fed up with the Gaspee and its captain, Lt.
  — Jennifer McDermott, Fox News, 7 June 2018
• Above is a replica of one of the ships the colonists arrived on.
  — baltimoresun.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• Most of the colonists who arrived in Maryland in 1634 aboard the Ark and the Dove were Catholic.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• Purves went scot-free, and most of the colonists believed the whole thing was Markham's fault.
  — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2015
• French-Creole colonists brought the beignet to the city in the 18th century.
  — Lanee Lee, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• Its name refers to the belief that just 3 percent of colonists rose up to fight the British.
  — Randall Chase, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• The Three Percenters derives its name from the belief that just 3% of the colonists rose up to fight the British.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2020
• English and French colonists brought with them iron pots called chaudière in French.
  — Devra Ferst, CNT, 12 Sep. 2017
• The stones were inscribed with an ongoing saga of the colonists’ demise.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2024
• Warm breezes, palm trees, gin-swilling colonists in white suits.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• The colonists, in the process of becoming Americans, called him a traitor.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 5 July 2017
• In the case of the colonists, that prize was mountains of diamonds or gold, or a quick passage to Asia.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• The colonists found Squanto unharmed and took him back to Plymouth.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Our colonists taught this lesson to King George, thus leading to the birth of our nation.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 25 July 2019
• The group’s name stems from the belief that only 3% of American colonists took up arms against the British.
  — Dallas News, 20 July 2019
• Wamelink and his team aren’t the only ones thinking about how to feed future space colonists.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 Oct. 2019
• But they won’t be focused on issues like how colonists grow food.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2017
• The lesson asks the students to answer questions in the perspective of a colonist.
  — Jessica Oh, ajc, 6 Mar. 2018
• Which monarch reigned over the colonists at the time of the American Revolution?
  — Michelle Hubenschmidt, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 July 2017
• The Siren Corporation, which put them on the ship, offers its colonists a clean slate.
  — Samantha Nelson, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
• The very first French colonists landed here before the town was established in 1716.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
• One reason was that colonists often did not have enough coins to buy food and household items.
  — Jonah Estess, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2019
• Waves of Quakers, Germans and descendants of British colonists staked out more routes over the next 200 years.
  — Jayne Orenstein, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• In Maryland, the 400-year-old skeleton of a teenage boy turned out to be one of the oldest burials of a colonist ever found in that state.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• In the novel, Mickey 7 is a space colonist known as an expendable.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
• French colonists brought New Orleans into being in the spring of 1718 with a few shacks on a marsh by the mouth of the Mississippi.
  — Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2019
• Colonists would cut the tops of pumpkins off, remove the seeds and fill the pumpkins with milk, spices and honey, then bake them in hot ashes.
  — Amanda Hawkins, Good Housekeeping, 24 July 2017
• This campy and strange story about a family of would-be colonists trying to survive in the coldest reaches of space is just the thing.
  — Alex Galbraith, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024