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
• Jeff Bezos seems to have run out of things to colonize here on Earth.
  — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 7 June 2021
• 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 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
• 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 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
• Then in the mid-1800s, the pioneers came from the East Coast with their belief in Manifest Destiny, their moral right to colonize the land.
  — Sunny Dooley, Scientific American, 8 July 2020
• The new romantic comedy is set in the future, where the best of the best humans reside and colonize on Mars.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 30 Mar. 2022
• The Outer Worlds trades the post-apocalypse for a brighter future where humans have colonized the stars.
  — Time, 11 June 2019
• SpaceX is perhaps the most ambitious: Musk wants to colonize Mars.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• But within a few years or decades, bacteria and lichen began to colonize the area.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
• These microbes colonize on the surface of the case and then break the plastic down into its raw components.
  — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 8 June 2021
• Leggett also pointed out that Cook did not colonize Alaska for the British.
  — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2020
• The Ark One is among the ships that have been sent to colonize faraway planets in a last-ditch effort to save humanity.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
• This is often how spiders colonize new areas and why they can sometimes be seen floating in the breeze.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
• Plant-fungi interactions are rich symbiotic pacts that go back to when plants first colonized land around 500 million years ago.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024