Example sentences for: colonias

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

  • In the early 1900s, Mexican communities were called colonias, as they are in Mexico today, but at some point after World War II, Chicano neighborhoods became known as barrios.

  • Mexican folklore traditions, folk songs, and folk dances had been taught within Mexican colonias (neighborhoods), today known as barrios, since before the 1930s, usually through the efforts of a single individual in the community, in church halls and mutual aid society halls, but not in the public schools.


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