How to Use colonization in a Sentence

colonization

noun

• Most changes have come through the brute force of colonization.
  — Kaitlyn Swan, refinery29.com, 30 June 2021
• There's no limit to the harm that is, can be, has been, and will be caused by colonization.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 22 June 2021
• The grand goal of the Chinese state is to complete the colonization of Xinjiang.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
• The truth is that colonization of the East African coast did not end with the departure of the British in the middle of the 20th century.
  — The Conversation, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
• Critics of the practice have said the process is racially skewed against the Maori, and is a legacy of colonization.
  — Reuters, CNN, 16 Dec. 2020
• Then a sequence of colonizations over four centuries by the Portuguese, Dutch and British shaped the city.
  — Scott Hocker, theweek, 15 Apr. 2024
• Deivid, on the other hand, is enamored with the Mars colonization project and dreams of going to space.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2023
• But few would say that Africans weren’t dealt a truly lousy card by colonization.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• The legacy of colonization by the Dutch, Portuguese, and British left lasting scars.
  — Christine Chitnis, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
• Musk has said the concept could work well in his future plans for Mars colonization.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• The area had once been the home of the Tongva people, Gorman noted, pre-colonization.
  — Doreen St. Félix, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2021
• The first colonization of Mexico was of course by Spain.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
• Musk next set his sights on a lofty goal: space exploration, and the future colonization Mars.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 27 Apr. 2022
• That very first meeting was just an eye-opener for me in terms of the colonization of the Inuit in Greenland, how it was done and the systemic tools that were used.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
• The festival’s roots lie in the Portuguese colonization of Brazil.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• This myth seems to have stemmed from a small study in mice that showed the nasal spray influenza vaccine led to an increase in group A strep colonization.
  — Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022
• There are ideas too: about moral impunity and colonization and the doubling of the self and, well, mommy issues?
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2023
• Mauna Kea is a product of the long-standing hand of colonization.
  — Eunica Escalante, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2021
• The church was the fourth mission founded by Serra in 1771, during the era of Spanish colonization.
  — Fox News, 12 July 2020
• In 1655, the grounds of the Estate were established when the British bested the Spanish in the ongoing colonization of Jamaica.
  — Bee Quammie, refinery29.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• This crisis is the result of hundreds of years of genocide and colonization.
  — Kali Simmons, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2021
• The schools were part of a broader push to erase Indigenous cultures, a step in the colonization of North America.
  — NBC News, 15 July 2021
• The board said the names were linked to slavery, oppression, genocide and colonization.
  — Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2021
• In some ways, the current crisis is a new version of what has been happening from the age of colonization onward.
  — Tatiana Schlossberg, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2022
• By 1610, the area had emerged as a fixture on Spanish trade routes, leading to Santa Fe’s colonization.
  — Alexandra Malmed, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2023
• Coffee first entered the scene in Vietnam in the 19th century with the French colonization.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2021
• His novels have often stemmed from his belief that the legacy of colonization has been played down.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• While the effort has set into high gear, there are plenty of critics of space colonization.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 9 May 2023
• Core themes of space colonization and human survival instincts translate clearly.
  — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2025
• Yet, despite the seemingly good educational intentions behind them, the villages relied on views of the country’s Indigenous peoples that were defined during colonization by White settlers.
  — Ashley Gardini, JSTOR Daily, 11 Mar. 2025