Example sentences for: settler

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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