colonist
Example Sentences
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Baskets were a ubiquitous part of Chumash life before the colonists came.
From Los Angeles Times
Major battles are retold using dioramas, interactive maps and narratives that focus on the broader war between the upstart colonists and the British.
The story is rudimentary: Elongated blue cat people prepare for a gigantic battle with the nasty, militarized, heartless, corporation-backed human colonists, or “sky people.”
In the Wong Kim Ark ruling, the court relied on this “customary law of England, brought to America by the colonists.”
From Salon
Spain, the dominant power in the region, didn’t look on the project kindly and attacked the Scottish colonists.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
