colony

Example Sentences

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Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony, is a popular holiday destination due to its golden beaches and year-round warm weather.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

Mr. Ozon’s star is the appropriately stone-faced Benjamin Voisin as Meursault, who like Camus is an ethnically French citizen of Algeria, which for more than a century was a French colony.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

The colony was located inside a dead tree standing about eight meters above the forest floor.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

The Chagos Islands have been under British control since 1814 and were administered from Mauritius while it was a British colony.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

In mid-1775 someone in Bermuda, a British colony off the coast of North Carolina, reported that the royal arsenal at St. George’s Island, Bermuda, was full of gunpowder and had no guards around it.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen