Example sentences for: colonizing

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

  • 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.

  • A more probable explanation attributed to a thoughtful historian named Bill Tate is that cruciform crevasses, in winter filled with snow, that are visible on the mountainside from San Gabriel, the first Spanish capital, reminded Juan de Oñate, the leader of the first successful Spanish colonizing expedition, of the cross he wore to symbolize membership in a lay religious order devoted to reverence for the Precious Blood of Christ.

  • They're colonizing cyberspace with Web sites that invite surfers to log off and hit the stores.

  • Around this time the Portuguese, who had also been colonizing the Atlantic, turned their attention to the Canaries.

  • Initially, the English were attracted to Canada only by the fish, preferring to concentrate their colonizing activities farther down the American coast.


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