How to Use colonize in a Sentence

colonize

verb

• Weeds quickly colonized the field.
• The island had been colonized by plants and animals.
• The area was colonized in the 18th century.
• How did lush rainforest colonize the sterile land so quickly?
  — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
• My mother’s country has been colonized twice: first by the Spanish, then by the U.S.
  — The Root Staff, The Root, 16 Feb. 2018
• Goa, on the west coast, specializes in fish and is influenced by the cuisine of Portugal, which once colonized it.
  — Daniel Neman, charlotteobserver, 26 Jan. 2018
• For the purposes of colonizing Mars or the moon, this is a welcome and necessary development.
  — Ian Whittaker, Smithsonian, 7 Feb. 2018
• Falcon Heavy is also the foundation of SpaceX’s grand plans for colonizing Mars.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2018
• Wakanda is un-colonized, thriving on its own natural resources and technologically advanced in ways the rest of the world can’t fathom.
  — NBC News, 9 Feb. 2018
• Beyond the uncertain commercial prospects, Mr. Musk may be driven more by his long-term dreams of colonizing the solar system.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
• But Wakanda has never been colonized, and so interacts with the outside world with a quiet assurance that belies its supposed lack of development.
  — Jonathan W. Gray, New Republic, 13 Feb. 2018
• The research team examined one type of obelisk that had colonized bacteria found on human tooth enamel: Streptococcus sanguinis.
  — Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
• The conflict of the film lies in the gulf between the experiences of the Wakandans, who have been shielded from the world’s inequalities, and those who have been colonized, enslaved and oppressed.
  — Katie Walsh, idahostatesman, 16 Feb. 2018
• Much of the roof is gone, and weeds colonize what remains of the floor.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
• Space agencies from around the world hope to colonize the moon one day.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2020
• In the film, he is sent to colonize a new world known as Niflheim and dies dozens of times in the process.
  — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 10 Jan. 2025
• Jeff Bezos seems to have run out of things to colonize here on Earth.
  — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 7 June 2021
• So part of the research was, what made Africa colonized?
  — Faith Cummings, Teen Vogue, 22 Feb. 2018
• The hero who is going to colonize Mars doesn’t know what Mars looks like.
  — Fox News, 24 June 2019
• The microbes that colonize cheese come from many places.
  — Ute Eberle, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2022
• In Italy, the truffles grow in select spots, colonizing near the roots of oak, beech and poplar trees.
  — Bernhard Warner, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• At the time the helmet was in use, the Roman Empire was in the early stages of colonizing Britain.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
• Since the first blocks of marble were sunk in 2015—and rapidly colonized by fish and plants— the gallery has grown steadily.
  — Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
• By that year, waterwheels had colonized the edges of Big Pond in New York.
  — Marion Renault, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2019
• And don't forget, Elon's vision is to go to Mars and colonize Mars.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 June 2024
• The film stars Robert Pattinson and centers on a clone that’s sent to colonize a new world.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2023
• The condiment had been colonized by multiple molds that looked like green-and-white ridges across the red ground.
  — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 5 July 2018
• The pressure pushes out colonized sap that oozes down the branches and trunk.
  — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2019
• This is not the first time terns have navigated to the Long Beach Harbor to colonize.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
• SpaceX is developing Starship to help humanity colonize the moon and Mars, and perform a variety of other spaceflight tasks (such as completing the assembly of its Starlink broadband megaconstellation).
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 17 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Mar 2025