How do you use Colony in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like settlement or body, plus the exact meaning.
Colony in a sentence
Colony meaning
- A geographical area under the remote control of a country; especially to extract resources or exploit labor from that area.
- A group of people who settle an area and maintain ties to their country of origin.
- A group of people with similar interests, occupations, or characteristics, living in a particular area; the area such people occupy.
Synonyms of Colony
Example sentences (20)
As a group, equities research analysts anticipate that Lancaster Colony Co. will post 6.25 EPS for the current year.
Colony Family Offices LLC raised its position in shares of Southwestern Energy by 100.0% during the first quarter.
Allegations of misconduct by Danish authorities against the people of its former colony have emerged in recent years.
Cats benefit from three new colony rooms with shelves and scratching posts as well as access to an outdoor patio.
He said Soldotna, the Student Wrestler Development Program out of Fairbanks and Colony are in the next tier of teams.
As a group, research analysts expect that Lancaster Colony Co. will post 6.25 earnings per share for the current year.
According to Habibganj police station house officer Manish Bhadoria, Manju Batra (82) is a resident of E-4, Arera Colony.
It meant a lot more carrying the flag out as the American Badass than the Undertaker in Betsy Ross’ original 13 Colony flag.
Algeria was the only French colony that was considered a part of France and divided into three provinces.
He is due to be transferred to “special security” penal colony, which has the highest security in the country’s penal system.
It looked like my second attempt this year to visit the Atlantic puffin colony on Seal Island would be as futile as the first.
In 2014, Arkansas State University opened the restored Cash family home and the surrounding New Deal colony as a Heritage Site.
He was sentenced to nine years in a maximum security penal colony in 2022 after years of tug-of-war with the Russian authorities.
It abandons its colony as the fungus directs it to a microclimate ideal for reproduction – usually a plant close to the forest floor.
Ants obviously can’t talk, so the player has to communicate with the colony using pheromones.
Communist-ruled Beijing is increasingly imposing its controls over the former British colony.
Colony Group LLC increased its stake in shares of VMware by 22.1% during the second quarter.
In other Lancaster Colony news, insider Kristin Bird sold 1,535 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, December 14th.
Nine expeditions to the colony were carried out before the Dutch captured the colony in 1655, well after Minuit's death.
As per usual, peace is the best option here, since the Colony is full of sentient, poisonous mushrooms who don't take kindly to interlopers.
Common combinations with colony
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the colony 75×
- colony of 27×
- colony in 17×
- penal colony 13×
- colony and 9×
- lancaster colony 8×
- colony on 7×
- colony as 7×
- colony is 6×
- colony was 5×
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The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word colony. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.