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Example sentences for: colonizing

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Within ten years, both tenant farmers (habitants) and fur traders (coureurs de bois, literally wood-runners) were colonizing Québec — New France — at the point where the river narrows.
Those inhabiting English's linguistic core may find the phrase cloying, but its popularity in finance and sport, and in the English spoken by non-native speakers, suggests that its colonizing power remains robust.
They're colonizing cyberspace with Web sites that invite surfers to log off and hit the stores.
In his groundbreaking 1978 study, Orientalism , Said accused previous generations of scholars of peddling a view of an exotic, backward, savage Orient, the intellectual justification for colonizing or manipulating the region.
Around this time the Portuguese, who had also been colonizing the Atlantic, turned their attention to the Canaries.