Example sentences for: colonials

How can you use “colonials” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Xiamen’s chief pleasure for any visitor is Gulangyu, a small island in the harbor that was once the home to foreign colonials.

  • Like colonials everywhere, their missionaries sometimes brought more religion, their traders more alcohol, and their soldiers more guns than the natives really needed.

  • There were many German-speaking Americans in Pennsylvania and other states; Dutch settlers in New York and elsewhere could learn to use German easily; German would be easy for other colonials to learn, since it was basically similar to English; the Hessians, German troop levies “rented” by the British, were deserting to the Americans and many wished to remain in America.

  • Nearby, the 220-ft- (67- m-) tall tapering granite obelisk, the Bunker Hill Monument commemorates the first battle of the Revolution, on 17 June, 1775 — a hollow victory for the British who suffered more than 1,000 casualties against 400 to 600 for the colonials.

  • A framed copy of the bilingual Québec Gazette, dating from 1786, suggests that colonials of the New World had an uncommon interest in the more arcane news of international events in the Old World, such as Turkey’s troubles with Venice or the quarrels of the Dutch royal family.


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