How to Use colonizer in a Sentence

colonizer

noun

• Kendrick called him a colonizer and haters have come out of the woodwork to bring him down.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 12 June 2024
• That wasn't the case in the 1800s as European colonizers moved in the the Ohio Valley.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2023
• To seize the land, colonizers first had to subdue the women.
  — oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2023
• The city's first colonizers, a thousand years before Christ, were the Phoenicians.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
• Wayne also forced most of those that remained from their lands, opening the way for white colonizers.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2024
• This was Fanon in reverse: bloodshed as balm not for the colonized but the colonizer.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• This is the latest in a series of coups and coup attempts against governments with ties to France, the region's former colonizer.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 30 Aug. 2023
• Zulu takes its name from the Black South African resistance army that fought British colonizers in the 19th century.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• But, when colonizers razed native forests to make room for sugarcane, pineapple, and cattle, the area dried out.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
• For him, the world divided neatly into two groups, the colonized and the colonizer.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
• The phrase is apt in the case of South Korea, whose industrial mentor was also its colonizer: Japan.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
• Those who wanted to keep the human remains on display were called colonizers.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• Many residents of Saint-Louis can no longer bear the sight of a colonizer’s statue, but what to do with the remnants of a troubled colonial past remains contentious.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2022
• The film is a searing reminder of the exploitation that Indigenous people have endured at the hands of colonizers.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
• What transmits over Mali’s radio waves may signal a broader shift in the West African country away from the language of its former colonizer.
  — Shera Avi-Yonah, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• And even a positive test may not mean the fungus is doing damage; Aspergillus can also be present in the lungs as a harmless colonizer.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Science | AAAS, 22 Mar. 2021
• This map represents one viewpoint: that of the colonizer.
  — Abby Levene, Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2022
• Skeptics point out that the country’s cultural heritage is still stuck in a pattern mapped out by their colonizers.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2024
• The small baitfish found in the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is an ardent colonizer.
  — WIRED, 24 June 2023
• In both countries, Indigenous cultures were repressed and sidelined by British colonizers, and the legacy of that persists to this day.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• Over the centuries, wave after wave of immigrants and colonizers landed here, each making a mark.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2024
• Billed as a return to the franchise’s roots, the film follows a group of young space colonizers who, while scavenging on a derelict space station, come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 July 2024
• This region reached its peak in the 16th century during the discoveries of silver and gold mines which explains the presence of colonizers in this area.
  — Shivani Vora, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Before the Spanish colonizers came to Pacoima, it was called Pacoinga, which was a Tongva name.
  — William Camargo, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• European colonizers to Hawaii noted surfing as far back as the 1800s.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
• This time around, a new crew of colonizers encounter those deadly extraterrestrials with the acidic blood.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
• And therein is the issue: Ratcliffe becomes the villain because Smith, his fellow colonizer, cannot be.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Apr. 2021
• The 20th Century Studios pic follows a group of young space colonizers who, while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 27 July 2024
• Before Spanish colonizers arrived in the region, that area held a village and a massive shell mound with a height of 20 feet and the length and width of a football field that was a ceremonial and burial site.
  — Olga R. Rodriguez, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2024
• In recent years, however, the Māori have made a comeback, marking one of the most ambitious efforts by a British colony to restore a language and a culture that the colonizers nearly wiped out.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024