How to Use colony in a Sentence

colony

noun

• Massachusetts was one of the original 13 British colonies that later became the United States.
• These are literal trails where ants lay down a pheromone on the path to a food source to attract other ants from their colony.
  — Tamara Gane, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2024
• For instance, social bees such as bumblebees collect food for other colony members and larvae.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2024
• As part of a rehabilitation package, a new colony was erected, made up of concrete homes that share a toilet complex.
  — Astha Rajvanshi, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
• The true events took place in a Mennonite colony in Bolivia, where women and girls were drugged and raped repeatedly over the course of four years.
  — Sasha Urban, Variety, 19 Nov. 2022
• An artists' colony with a population of less than 1,300, this charming small town is located about an hour south of Tucson.
  — Caroline McKenzie, Country Living, 16 Nov. 2022
• The former Portuguese colony’s history with gaming dates back to its founding as a trading post in the 16th century.
  — Time, 3 Nov. 2022
• The story is inspired by a real-life incident, in which women were drugged and raped in their sleep in a Mennonite colony in Bolivia for four years.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2022
• Tracking the population and activity of this colony of Big Brown Bats will help scientists working to conserve them.
  — Bob Hirshon, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
• The ship will journey along Tracy Arm to the Sawyer Glacier, dipping in and out of narrow fjords and passing waterfalls, a seal colony, and roaming wild bears.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2024
• Brittney Griner has been moved to a penal colony in a remote village in Central Russia to serve her nine-year prison sentence, her lawyers confirmed Thursday.
  — Julie Mazziotta, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2022
• There are also lots of trails for hiking, walking, and running, and a hotel guide can drive you down to the Cape itself for photography of the cliffs as well as an up-close look at the world’s largest colony of gannet birds.
  — Rachel King, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2022
• Even when a coral colony survives, the stress takes a toll.
  — Michael Robinson Chavez, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
• If that builds up in your bin, that too can wipe out your colony.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023
• Then the chicks will be ready to live with the colony and make their zoo debut in the habitat.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 15 May 2024
• The first thing to look for is the number of colony forming units or CFUs.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• For starters, both a queen and a king are needed to start a termite colony.
  — Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• The former British colony still pegs the value of its money to that of the US dollar.
  — Laura He, CNN, 13 June 2023
• Inside, the colony looked like a train station at rush hour.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Women in the colony are taught to vote and must decide on one of the three outcomes.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• There, he’s put under arrest, and the colony’s men go to bail him out.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023
• In the absence of the rest of the colony’s men, who’ve left town to bail the rapists out of jail, the women must decide what comes next.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 24 Jan. 2023
• Dense colonies of aphids can be found along stems or on the undersides of leaves.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
• Griner had been sentenced to nine years and moved to a penal colony last month.
  — Wire Reports, oregonlive, 8 Dec. 2022
• The movie is based on true events at a Mennonite colony in the 2000s, but it was filmed in the shadows of #MeToo.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• Green sweat bees Green sweat bees often nest in the ground or wood and live alone rather than in colonies.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2023
• Penguins nesting on the fringes of the colony had longer, deeper sleeps than those in the middle.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Ants need to defend their colony, seek food and take care of offspring.
  — Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023
• And their nests can become home to colonies of aggressive wasps that nest in the ground too.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2024
• That started to change once the city began to be reborn as an artists’ colony.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Nov 2024