Example sentences for: colonizers

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

  • Attribute part of Zaire's current crisis to the boundaries it inherited from its Belgian colonizers.

  • The settlement of California by Spanish colonizers happened much later than in New Mexico and Texas.

  • Their brief encounters with Atlantic fishermen left little impact, but the advent of French and later British colonizers brought, in exchange for their beaver pelts, copper kettles and guns, blankets and brandy, Christianity, measles, and smallpox.

  • According to some authorities, when the present capital of New Mexico was founded by Spanish colonizers in 1610, it was named La Villa Real de Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís . In later versions this grandiloquent title, really more a dedication than a name, sometimes has the definite article la inserted between de and Santa , which changes the meaning from Saint Francis of Assisi's Royal City of Holy Faith to the Royal City of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi . In modern times at least, and possibly since its founding, the capital, no longer royal, has been known simply as Santa Fe . Since Romance derivatives of Latin sanctus mean holy as well as saint , the Spanish name today, like the same name for several towns in countries of Spanish culture, means in English `Holy Faith.

  • Some years later, French colonizers moved south to both Guadeloupe and Martinique.


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