Example sentences for: settler

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

  • First settler William Blackstone sold the 48-acre (19-hectare) parcel of land to Boston residents in 1634.

  • 16 New York Times Book Review , that the new Guinness is so glossied-up and dumbed-down--these days, it's mainly an appendage to a Guinness World Records: Primetime TV show--that it can no longer serve its hallowed function as settler of ale-fueled pub arguments.

  • Barak's fragile coalition is equally vulnerable if terrorism or settler violence surges.

  • According to Ha'aretz , settler leaders deluged Parliament with last-minute letters, faxes, and phone calls protesting the move.

  • I was all the more annoyed because I knew where the new meaning came from: from German, from the phrase im Bilde sein . Some German (or Swiss, or Austrian) settler in America had wrongly translated his native expression into English, the unsupecting Americans had taken it over, and now we had it round our necks, while the original, genuine English expression had received the kiss of death.


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