Colonizers is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Colonizers meaning
plural of colonizer
Using Colonizers
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of colonizer
- In the example corpus, colonizers often appears in combinations such as: colonizers and, european colonizers, the colonizers.
Context around Colonizers
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Colonizers
- In this selection, "colonizers" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, spanish, white, european, guardia, first and arrived stand out and add context to how "colonizers" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a few colonizers and their and ancestor of colonizers and slave. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "colonizers" sits close to words such as abington, abled and adorno, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with colonizers
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Some White colonizers "adopted" Black children. (6 words)
Middle Eastern studies professors regard Jews as colonizers. (8 words)
Seems quite a few colonizers and their cheerleaders forgot that. (10 words)
I think it goes back to, you probably understand as an anthropologist, that a lot of the time, it's usually colonizers and people in positions of power who were the ones putting these labels onto things in a way that's inherently problematic. (44 words)
After Mexico ceded its New Mexico territory to the U.S. at the end of the Mexican-American War of 1848, the Apache fought to defend their homeland from colonizers and Army troops; despite decades of resistance, many were killed or captured. (42 words)
Before Spanish colonizers arrived in the region, that area held a village and a massive shell mound with a height of 20 feet and the length and width of a football field that was a ceremonial and burial site. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Another Twitter user called AK Kamara wrote: 'Angela Davis, the radical Marxist and former black panther, recently discovered she is also the ancestor of colonizers and slave owners.
But perhaps the worst environment for teachers and students is in schools led by avaricious and oppressive school administrators who act like they are the present-day equivalent of ancient Roman centurions or the Spanish colonizers’ guardia sibil.
Referring to these Jews as "colonizers," the Palestinian PM falsely accused them of violently storming the al-Aqsa Mosque, located on the Temple Mount.
To evidence this, she explained that local populations had led their lives in those areas for millennia before the arrival of colonizers.
To seize the land, colonizers first had to subdue the women.
Weedy colonizers that are large, fast-growing grasses such as giant reed (), giant miscanthus (Pennisetum purpureum) are undisputed ‘kings of grasses’ and sources of bioenergy.
After Mexico ceded its New Mexico territory to the U.S. at the end of the Mexican-American War of 1848, the Apache fought to defend their homeland from colonizers and Army troops; despite decades of resistance, many were killed or captured.
Before Spanish colonizers arrived in the region, that area held a village and a massive shell mound with a height of 20 feet and the length and width of a football field that was a ceremonial and burial site.
Middle Eastern studies professors regard Jews as colonizers.
Seems quite a few colonizers and their cheerleaders forgot that.
And so all people of color, for the most part, have that relationship that is not equal and is hierarchical between them and white colonizers.
I think it goes back to, you probably understand as an anthropologist, that a lot of the time, it's usually colonizers and people in positions of power who were the ones putting these labels onto things in a way that's inherently problematic.
Some White colonizers "adopted" Black children.
The Day of the Dead, which is widely considered to be Mexico’s most important festival, is rooted in the indigenous Mexica culture, mixed with Christian superstition brought by Spanish colonizers.
The tour offers a view of life on Martinique for the island’s colonizers.
The training begins with a “land acknowledgement,” in which the teachers are asked to accept that they are colonizers living on stolen Native American land.
Debates, publications, and public or private initiatives have surfaced in support of Africa’s campaign to access its cultural heritage, most of which sits in the museums of its former European colonizers.
He further proclaimed, “We are no longer slaves, colonizers or indentured labourers.
However one wonders whether all things brought about by the colonizers were bad.
Interestingly enough, Beijing lumps the United States in with these European colonizers.
Common combinations with colonizers
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- colonizers and 10×
- european colonizers 9×
- the colonizers 7×
- spanish colonizers 6×
- of colonizers 4×
- as colonizers 2×
- colonizers the 2×
- white colonizers 2×
- colonizers were 2×
- by colonizers 2×