How to Use colonization in a Sentence

colonization

noun

• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There are three main aspects to the vision being laid out by Musk (setting aside his plans for space colonization).
  — Paris Marx, Wired, 5 July 2022
• The conquest and colonization of New England mattered, of course.
  — oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2021
• The history of tatau, and its preservation, is also tied to the colonization of the Pacific.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• But some of them were born after colonization with the new global exchange of recipes when rice and cilantro and onions and limes and chicken and, uh, beef and pork all came to this continent.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Jan. 2024
• From the moment the spacecraft leaves Earth, each step of colonization will be defined by the engineering that is meant to let settlers live a full life on Mars.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
• The course is an ode to chocolate, which was used as a currency in the days before European colonization.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 25 Jan. 2022
• The Spanish brought a bigger taste for beef and dairy with the cattle industry during their colonization of the islands.
  — Margot Seeto, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Aug. 2021
• It’s kind of playing through the story of the site in a way: the relationship these have to bones that have been dug up, the extraction of resources, the larger story of colonization.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2021
• Musk’s long-term goal was, and remains, grander: to build a rocket powerful enough to reach Mars, opening the red planet for colonization.
  — Greg Jefferson, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Oct. 2021
• The series follows the story of the unification and colonization of Hawaii from an indigenous point of view.
  — NBC News, 6 Apr. 2022
• This privilege was the subject of heated debate last week in Hong Kong, a city that has for a long time been enthralled by all things Western due to its 150 years of colonization by the British.
  — Chandran Nair, Time, 27 Aug. 2021
• There’s never been peace, there’s always been colonization, it’s always been a fight and a struggle and violence.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
• The manmade structures in Hawaii will be studded with concrete domes meant to encourage coral colonization.
  — Saqib Rahim, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024