colonies
Example Sentences
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Colonies typically have 20 to 100 bats, though people have discovered roosts with more than 5,000.
From Washington Post
Colonies are collapsing, with worker bees vanishing and leaving the queen alone with the nurse and immature bees, and overall bee populations are no longer as dense or wide-ranging as they used to be.
From Salon
“I was simply talking about the founding documents of the United States, not the Colonies.”
From Reuters
He was awarded the MBE and applauded by the Secretary of State for the Colonies for having won "fame among doctors and scientists all over the world".
From BBC
Brown University historian Gordon S. Wood said The 1619 Project falsely characterized the American Revolution as driven by a desire to protect slavery in the Colonies.
From Washington Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
