How to Use colony in a Sentence

colony

noun

• Massachusetts was one of the original 13 British colonies that later became the United States.
• And that the rooftop would be closed to accommodate the rigging, so the bee colony would have to be moved.
  — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2022
• The guano in their colonies must smell pleasant, comforting, rather than the barnyard stink that hit my own nose.
  — Blair Braverman, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2024
• California vowed to shut down colonies where hundreds of captive dogs supply blood for veterinary care.
  — Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
• Just to the east, on Tyson Street, a group of do-it-yourself home renovators were establishing their own colony.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 3 Sep. 2022
• Like ants, a colony made up of many individuals has attributes resembling a single organism.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022
• These symbolic props had featured prominently in colonial protests against British rule of the American colonies.
  — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
• Indeed, Buckley argued, the practice delayed the abolition of slavery in Britain and its colonies.
  — Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
• Exploiting the land for its rubber production, the colony engaged in massive human rights abuses causing what are believed to be millions of deaths.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• The hornet is a threat to the honeybee and other insects, with the ability to kill entire honeybee colonies in 90 minuets.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
• Even presuming a level technological playing field, aliens will reduce Earth to a colony four hours after their arrival.
  — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2022
• Britain also has welcomed thousands of people from Hong Kong as Beijing squeezes the freedoms in the former British colony.
  — Sylvia Hui, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
• During times of social instability — as in the weeks after a colony’s queen was violently deposed — these cohesive dialects fell apart.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• Tech has been slow to take off in the former French colony—a general trend for Francophone Africa compared to Anglophone equivalents.
  — Tom Collins, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2022
• The sci-fi adventure follows a young woman, played by Sofia Boutella, in a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy forced to seek out help from neighboring planets to ward off an invading tyrant.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 6 Jan 2025