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Example sentences for: settler
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Wandering around (you can stroll over the entire island in a few hours) you’ll find the Loyalist Cottage, a late-18th-century settler’s home, as well as several simple churches, including the oldest Anglican church in the Bahamas, St. John’s.
Barak's fragile coalition is equally vulnerable if terrorism or settler violence surges.
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.
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.
Location is more difficult, because its sense history in American English is complex; but in the Australian usage of the 1788-1838 period it meant either an allocation or grant of land or the act of establishing a settler in a place, in which case it was synonymous with settlement, as in the country will shortly be thrown open to general location.