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.
• 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
• In other words, the enlarged range would further colonize this area of the park for golf.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
• 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
• 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
• Greenland was colonized by the Danish priest Hans Egede in 1721.
  — Adam Price, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
• England asks about colonizing the world for spices, only to find out salt is too much.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
• Still, there's a mad scramble under way to colonize the streets.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 14 June 2021
• The first Europeans began colonizing what is now South Africa in 1652, with the arrival of the Dutch.
  — Sisonke Msimang, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
• The ship moved on, and Spain didn’t colonize California until the late 1700s.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
• But the backdrop is a very near future where a race of aliens has colonized Earth through economic means.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
• France, which colonized Niger, has about 5,000 forces in the area, according to McKenzie.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 18 Oct. 2017
• Hard to kill, the parasite colonizes the digestive tract and is typically a death sentence for reptiles.
  — Emily Elconin, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
• Greenland is an autonomous and self-governing region of Denmark, which colonized the island 300 years ago.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2025