How to Use settler in a Sentence

settler

noun

• The plant is native to Europe and was brought over to the United States by settlers in the 1800s.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2023
• Many graves date back to around 1850 when settlers first formed the graveyard.
  — Madeline Cisneros, EW.com, 5 May 2024
• The olive branch, stands for the settlers, and the peace pipe, for Indigenous people, appear on top of the shield.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
• Footage shows heavy smoke engulfing the air, as settlers fire gunshots in the area.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
• Junior settler MJ Hamill finished with 21 assists, 11 in the fourth set, and a team-high three aces.
  — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2022
• The town was founded by German settlers in 1837 and named after the German city.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2023
• In their view, the state and even mainstream settler leaders have not been hard-line enough and in turn have lost their moral standing.
  — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2021
• As noted in the previous Portals, the first settler moved into the area in 1847.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2022
• More than likely, Martian settlers will need to grow their own food.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024
• Shasta County was home to some of the first settlers to California, who were drawn to the area during the Gold Rush.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
• For many years the caves had little protection, and few settlers knew of their full extent.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
• The attack by the settlers was part of an escalating wave of tit-for-tat violence in the West Bank.
  — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
• The top third of the mound belongs to Osage Nation, but there are two settler houses on lower tiers.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2024
• One Palestinian man was killed by a settler who shot him in the abdomen, the man’s family said.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
• By the 1600s, more and more settlers arrived and began herding cattle and horses.
  — Anna Mahan, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
• Guests can walk the same streets as settlers in the 1850s, peer into windows of homes that still have the table set, and even take a ghost tour in the late summer or early fall.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2023
• Fireworks were created centuries ago and came to the New World with the early settlers from Europe.
  — Maggie Scales, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
• The police in the West Bank are almost completely settlers and militia.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
• Calves died, as did some adult cows, and some settlers thought cattle were poisoning themselves at wells and springs.
  — Will McCarthy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
• The effort to curb the Supreme Court is also considered by many in the opposition as an act of revenge by the settlers.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 23 July 2023
• Some early settlers may have seen divine providence in the name.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• Brought over by settlers in the 1800s to hunt rats on ships, feral cats thrived, living on an island full of species that were not adapted to escape them.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• It was named Utopia by German settlers, who were said to have been fascinated by the abundance of rabbits that were easy to catch.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
• At the same time, the northern West Bank has seen a sharp jump in settler violence against Palestinians in recent months.
  — Josef Federman, ajc, 16 Dec. 2021
• Tellingly, that withdrawal was backed by the Supreme Court, one of several decisions that put the court in the cross hairs of the settler movement.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• Wednesday's ancestor Goody seems to be a white settler.
  — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 14 Dec. 2022
• A week or so ago, for example, settlers attacked a town called Huwara and burned houses and property and cars and so on.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
• The first permanent white settler in this region was Henry Rapp, who arrived in about 1810.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2022
• During his speech, the king acknowledged Australia’s First Nations people, who lived on the land before British settlers.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
• The sport is deeply woven into Hawaiian culture because the early settlers arrived on these islands by canoe).
  — Julia Ries, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024