How to Use colonist in a Sentence

colonist

noun

• British colonists settled the area in the 18th century.
• Most of the colonists who arrived in Maryland in 1634 aboard the Ark and the Dove were Catholic.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• French-Creole colonists brought the beignet to the city in the 18th century.
  — Lanee Lee, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• The Three Percenters derives its name from the belief that just 3% of the colonists rose up to fight the British.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2020
• Warm breezes, palm trees, gin-swilling colonists in white suits.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• The colonists found Squanto unharmed and took him back to Plymouth.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Our colonists taught this lesson to King George, thus leading to the birth of our nation.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 25 July 2019
• The group’s name stems from the belief that only 3% of American colonists took up arms against the British.
  — Dallas News, 20 July 2019
• Wamelink and his team aren’t the only ones thinking about how to feed future space colonists.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 Oct. 2019
• The very first French colonists landed here before the town was established in 1716.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
• One reason was that colonists often did not have enough coins to buy food and household items.
  — Jonah Estess, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2019
• Waves of Quakers, Germans and descendants of British colonists staked out more routes over the next 200 years.
  — Jayne Orenstein, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• In Maryland, the 400-year-old skeleton of a teenage boy turned out to be one of the oldest burials of a colonist ever found in that state.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• In the novel, Mickey 7 is a space colonist known as an expendable.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
• French colonists brought New Orleans into being in the spring of 1718 with a few shacks on a marsh by the mouth of the Mississippi.
  — Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2019
• The series followed the Robinson family, space colonists aboard the Jupiter 2.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• The character-building process is framed as Phineas’ search for the perfect colonist to revive.
  — EW.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoags sat down together to an autumn feast of venison and wild fowl.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2023
• The Wampanoag showed the colonists a lot ways to grow and keep food, but neither group had access to refrigeration.
  — Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2019
• Mission Dolores is a testament to the faith that sustained the Spanish colonists.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• This March 5 marks the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, when British soldiers shot and killed five colonists on a cold winter’s night.
  — Time, 5 Mar. 2020
• His mother was a member of a tribe trying to flee their colonist oppressors.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 11 Nov. 2022
• The Atlantic coastline provided Wampanoag and the colonists with clams, mussels, and lobster.
  — Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2019
• The next day, as many as 6,000 colonists gathered at the Old South Meeting House to discuss how to handle the unwanted cargo.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• The theory alleges that the colonists later rebelled against the empire.
  — Jeremy Hillpot, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
• Apples, first brought to the continent by the colonists, grew well across large swaths of the country and could be stored through the winter, unlike most other fresh fruits.
  — Gabriella Petrick, Smithsonian, 21 Aug. 2019
• English colonists took the Africans, who came from what is now Angola, to properties along the James River.
  — Ben Finley, The Seattle Times, 11 Feb. 2019
• Thomas also said there is proof that colonist leaders gave a white greyhound to Powhatan, the Chief of Native Virginians.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• The Jamestown colonists carried this habit of standing up to authority into a new world.
  — Michael Knox Beran, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
• But this time the Wari colonists did something unexpected.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 16 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024