Colonies is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Colonies meaning
plural of colony
Using Colonies
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of colony
- In the example corpus, colonies often appears in combinations such as: the colonies, colonies and, colonies of.
Context around Colonies
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 10 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Colonies
- In this selection, "colonies" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, unauthorised, new, cattle, recover, settlement and 434 stand out and add context to how "colonies" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all its colonies and and cardassian colonies found themselves. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "colonies" sits close to words such as cave, hungary and editorial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with colonies
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Colonies Germany quickly lost almost all its colonies. (8 words)
Once the colonies are built, Buhari should resign and become commissioner of cattle colonies. (14 words)
Even though colonies of zooids grow through asexual reproduction, Bryozoans are hermaphrodites and colonies are started through sexual reproduction. (19 words)
It’s true that in 1772, the famous Somerset case ended slavery in England and Wales, but it had no impact on Britain’s Caribbean colonies, where the vast majority of black people enslaved by the British labored and died, or in the North American Colonies. (46 words)
Earle, p. 148. Although some of these pirates operating out of New England and the Middle Colonies targeted Spain's remoter Pacific coast colonies well into the 1690s and beyond, the Indian Ocean was a richer and more tempting target. (40 words)
Waves of migrants shipped to London from newly independent British West Indian colonies – the – and to Paris from former French colonies in north and sub-Saharan Africa, were trying to adapt to new lives and make themselves heard. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Giving up on the rebellious New England colonies, they decided to split the Thirteen Colonies and isolate New England from what the British believed to be the more loyal southern colonies.
Indentured servants from India travelled to British colonies in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and also to French and Portuguese colonies, while Chinese servants travelled to British and Dutch colonies.
The camps were held on weekends between November 30 and December 12 for residents of the city’s unauthorised colonies to procure ownership rights under Pradhan Mantri - Unauthorised Colonies in Delhi Awas Adhikar Yojana.
The insects — also called black rover ants — tend to establish colonies in soil, leaf litter and mulch, and take to the skies during the summer months to seek out places to establish new colonies.
It’s true that in 1772, the famous Somerset case ended slavery in England and Wales, but it had no impact on Britain’s Caribbean colonies, where the vast majority of black people enslaved by the British labored and died, or in the North American Colonies.
Waves of migrants shipped to London from newly independent British West Indian colonies – the – and to Paris from former French colonies in north and sub-Saharan Africa, were trying to adapt to new lives and make themselves heard.
Beekeepers who lose more than 20 per cent of their bees must split hives and buy new queens to make new colonies — a costly step that limits honey production until colonies recover.
Between them, these two codes provided the template for most of Britain’s colonies, with the Queensland law particularly influential in African colonies.
Once the colonies are built, Buhari should resign and become commissioner of cattle colonies.
The historic Colonies settlement ended a longstanding legal dispute over flood control improvements at Colonies’ 434-acre residential and commercial development in Upland.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, has disclosed that work will commence next week to establish cattle colonies in states that have indicated interest in hosting the colonies.
What’s more, both village and city colonies had a markedly greater number of these bees over the course of the study than agricultural colonies, as well as more worker bees at their peak.
Alan Palmer, Bernadotte: Napoleon's Marshal, Sweden's King (1991) Colonies and slavery Sweden experimented briefly with overseas colonies, including " New Sweden " in Colonial America in the 1640s.
All communication between the Australian colonies and the British Government was meant to go through the Governor-General, and the other colonies had Lieutenant-Governors.
Ants form colonies that range in size from a few dozen predatory individuals living in small natural cavities to highly organised colonies that may occupy large territories and consist of millions of individuals.
A number of Federation and Cardassian colonies found themselves situated within the other’s territory; an agreement was reached for the transfer of those colonies.
Colonies Germany quickly lost almost all its colonies.
Earle, p. 148. Although some of these pirates operating out of New England and the Middle Colonies targeted Spain's remoter Pacific coast colonies well into the 1690s and beyond, the Indian Ocean was a richer and more tempting target.
Even though colonies of zooids grow through asexual reproduction, Bryozoans are hermaphrodites and colonies are started through sexual reproduction.
First, it could be used to improve navigation and trade between Miletus 's colonies and other colonies around the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea.
Common combinations with colonies
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the colonies 39×
- colonies and 18×
- colonies of 17×
- colonies in 15×
- former colonies 15×
- american colonies 8×
- colonies are 8×
- colonies to 7×
- colonies that 7×
- british colonies 6×