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Example sentences for: colonize

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Following ingestion, bacteria occasionally survive the formidable but imperfect gastric barrier, and colonize the gut [12].
Other bacteria that colonize specialized niches for long periods and lack co-colonizing strains also possess high levels of repetitive chromosomal sequences.
The story so far: A mysterious Syndicate of rich white evildoers has been in apparent cahoots with aliens seeking to colonize the earth.
Esquivel arrived in 1510 and created a base called Nueva Sevilla near St. Ann’s Bay, from which he hoped to colonize the rest of the island.
•8th circa b.c.Greeks colonize Sicily and other southern regions