How to Use settler in a Sentence

settler

noun
  • From time to time, a settler’s car inched its way through the crowd.
    Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The plant is native to Europe and was brought over to the United States by settlers in the 1800s.
    Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Many graves date back to around 1850 when settlers first formed the graveyard.
    Madeline Cisneros, EW.com, 5 May 2024
  • The olive branch, stands for the settlers, and the peace pipe, for Indigenous people, appear on top of the shield.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Footage shows heavy smoke engulfing the air, as settlers fire gunshots in the area.
    Abeer Salman, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Junior settler MJ Hamill finished with 21 assists, 11 in the fourth set, and a team-high three aces.
    Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The town was founded by German settlers in 1837 and named after the German city.
    Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The waves of grass soon enticed settlers from the Eastern United States and Europe.
    Franz Burnier, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In their view, the state and even mainstream settler leaders have not been hard-line enough and in turn have lost their moral standing.
    Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Many Arabs in Lod view the group with suspicion because of its ties with the West Bank settler movement.
    Fox News, 8 June 2021
  • As noted in the previous Portals, the first settler moved into the area in 1847.
    Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2022
  • More than likely, Martian settlers will need to grow their own food.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024
  • Shasta County was home to some of the first settlers to California, who were drawn to the area during the Gold Rush.
    Calmatters, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
  • For many years the caves had little protection, and few settlers knew of their full extent.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
  • The attack by the settlers was part of an escalating wave of tit-for-tat violence in the West Bank.
    Dov Lieber, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The top third of the mound belongs to Osage Nation, but there are two settler houses on lower tiers.
    Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2024
  • One Palestinian man was killed by a settler who shot him in the abdomen, the man’s family said.
    Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
  • By the 1600s, more and more settlers arrived and began herding cattle and horses.
    Anna Mahan, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Guests can walk the same streets as settlers in the 1850s, peer into windows of homes that still have the table set, and even take a ghost tour in the late summer or early fall.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Near the turn of the century, the messianic Ghost Dance spread rapidly among the tribes of the West, prophesying the return of the dead and the end of settler dominion.
    New York Times, 15 Sep. 2021
  • There is a right wing settler group that seeks to settle in all the areas, including these Arab areas.
    CBS News, 23 June 2021
  • Fireworks were created centuries ago and came to the New World with the early settlers from Europe.
    Maggie Scales, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • During the cholera outbreak in the mid-1800s, settlers turned to Indian Field to create a cemetery.
    Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The police in the West Bank are almost completely settlers and militia.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Calves died, as did some adult cows, and some settlers thought cattle were poisoning themselves at wells and springs.
    Will McCarthy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • The effort to curb the Supreme Court is also considered by many in the opposition as an act of revenge by the settlers.
    Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • Some early settlers may have seen divine providence in the name.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Brought over by settlers in the 1800s to hunt rats on ships, feral cats thrived, living on an island full of species that were not adapted to escape them.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • But Trump also took steps that are keeping some settler proponents cautious.
    Tia Goldenberg, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Andrew Jackson, a firebrand advocate for farmers and western settlers, saw adherence to a gold standard as a way to avoid excessive government power.
    Kevin Coldiron, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024

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