Examples of 'colonists' in a sentence

Meaning of "colonists"

Colonists are individuals who migrate from their own country or region to settle in and establish a colony in a new land. Colonists typically aim to expand their nation's territories, resources, or influence. Historically, colonists often represented imperial powers seeking to exploit the resources and control the indigenous populations of the lands they colonized
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Early colonists did not have these problems.
They sold it to the colonists for a pittance.
The colonists are just about all on board.
In every case the colonists returned fire.
You colonists heralded the national advancement.
The very frightened colonists continued trip.
The colonists soon built a wooden church.
Years after the colonists settled there.
The colonists brought this onto themselves.
They taught the colonists to grow rice.
These colonists were freemen and indentured servants.
Currently there are six billion human colonists.
But the colonists dug their heels in.
We shall not be outsmarted by these traitorous colonists.
Most of the colonists were kept in cryogenic suspension.

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I got out with the last colonists.
The other colonists all seem to be women.
He is a resistance fighter against the alien colonists.
Grendlers or penal colonists could have done any of it.
Colonists often take a shine to indigenous women.
Several prominent colonists were considered to lead it.
Nearly all natural children of married colonists.
A number of colonists died in the first year.
Could be a link to the disappearance of the colonists.
The colonists did not have enough food.
Those with money despise colonists without it.
The colonists also established a penal code.
They fell out with local colonists.
But the colonists did not immediately give up.
Such a pity they fight the colonists.
But colonists protest against heavy taxes.
And you go looking for the colonists.
The colonists started to farm the land.
And a bloody million colonists on the way.
The colonists used this method of fighting.
The cleared land was used by colonists as pastureland.
If the colonists have found that ship.
It has been estimated that there were thousands of colonists.
Yes and the colonists are wrong.
The colonists sadly underestimated their hosts.
He kept his tribe in relation to the colonists.
These new colonists soon multiplied so rapidly.
Spanish privateers also terrorized the colonists.
The colonists believed in the need for.
We have seen penal colonists here that.
These burdens were felt severely by the colonists.
Forced the colonists to reconsider their position.
Peaceful farmers traded with local colonists.
Send the colonists back for us.
He was a keen supporter of constitutional rights for colonists.

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