How to Use colony in a Sentence

colony

noun

• Massachusetts was one of the original 13 British colonies that later became the United States.
• The rest stood upon the forest floor, thick with mulch, moss, and ants from a nearby colony.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
• At that time, each colony had its own system for licensing and regulating its physicians.
  — Trisha Pasricha, STAT, 11 Oct. 2022
• With fewer chicks maturing into adults, the colony's numbers continued to decline.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
• The superhero movie featured scenes filmed in the former British colony, including one of Batman on a skyscraper at night.
  — Sarah Zheng, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2022
• More direct treatments can lessen the pathogen load in the environment, but treating coral colonies individually and by hand like the team in the study is not feasible long-term or on a large scale.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Claire Foy plays Salome Friesen, the colony’s firebrand.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
• In the greenhouses, the urchins sometimes share tanks with small coral colonies to help keep the coral algae-free.
  — Lisa S. Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
• First of all: Don’t accept food, never mind ancient yeast colonies, from strangers in the woods.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• But not all colonies will recover in 20 or even 30 years, Jones notes.
  — Ethan Freedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2024
• Mind you, Svarthamaren has long been described as the world’s largest colony of antarctic petrels.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 13 Mar. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024