Example sentences for: settlers

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

  • Today's settlers, especially West Bankers, are far more militant than their '80s counterparts.

  • After every attack the settlers put out the fires, buried the dead, and rebuilt San Germán.

  • It’s been cleaned up considerably since the first settlers arrived in the 1880s and found the banks of the Wascana Creek littered with hundreds of buffalo bones.

  • Settler , from 1788, was roughly synonymous with colonist: I say roughly because W.H. Breton, in 1833, distinguishes between settlers the farmers only and colonists the whole of the free inhabitants, though this may be an academic distinction as John Dunmore Lang in the next year remarks that spirit of irreconcilable enmity to standing timber... almost uniformly evinced by all Australian colonists.

  • Named by Danish settlers after the wife of King Christian V, the settlement started out as a trading port (a tradition that continues with great success today).


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