How to Use colony in a Sentence
colony
noun- Massachusetts was one of the original 13 British colonies that later became the United States.
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Even when a coral colony survives, the stress takes a toll.
— Michael Robinson Chavez, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022 -
Charles had been a fixture of the early days of the divorce colony in the 1890s.
— April White, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022 -
If that builds up in your bin, that too can wipe out your colony.
— Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023 -
Inside the colony, there's more space and Griner will have to work eight hours a day.
— Jason Duaine Hahn, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2022 -
Then the chicks will be ready to live with the colony and make their zoo debut in the habitat.
— Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 15 May 2024 -
The first thing to look for is the number of colony forming units or CFUs.
— Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022 -
For starters, both a queen and a king are needed to start a termite colony.
— Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 5 May 2023 -
The former British colony still pegs the value of its money to that of the US dollar.
— Laura He, CNN, 13 June 2023 -
Inside, the colony looked like a train station at rush hour.
— Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023 -
Women in the colony are taught to vote and must decide on one of the three outcomes.
— Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023 -
There, he’s put under arrest, and the colony’s men go to bail him out.
— Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023 -
Paris has had its troops in Mali, a former French colony, for nine years.
— Fox News, 19 July 2022 -
In the absence of the rest of the colony’s men, who’ve left town to bail the rapists out of jail, the women must decide what comes next.
— Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 24 Jan. 2023 -
Dense colonies of aphids can be found along stems or on the undersides of leaves.
— Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023 -
Griner had been sentenced to nine years and moved to a penal colony last month.
— Wire Reports, oregonlive, 8 Dec. 2022 -
The movie is based on true events at a Mennonite colony in the 2000s, but it was filmed in the shadows of #MeToo.
— Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022 -
Green sweat bees Green sweat bees often nest in the ground or wood and live alone rather than in colonies.
— Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2023 -
Penguins nesting on the fringes of the colony had longer, deeper sleeps than those in the middle.
— Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023 -
And that the rooftop would be closed to accommodate the rigging, so the bee colony would have to be moved.
— Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2022 -
Ants need to defend their colony, seek food and take care of offspring.
— Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023 -
The rest stood upon the forest floor, thick with mulch, moss, and ants from a nearby colony.
— Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2022 -
And their nests can become home to colonies of aggressive wasps that nest in the ground too.
— Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2024 -
That started to change once the city began to be reborn as an artists’ colony.
— Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024 -
Claire Foy plays Salome Friesen, the colony’s firebrand.
— Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022 -
Thanks to Porter, Baumgartner was able to conjure the lives of the Black Seminoles and the runaways in their colony.
— Scott Dalton, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2022 -
In the greenhouses, the urchins sometimes share tanks with small coral colonies to help keep the coral algae-free.
— Lisa S. Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024 -
First of all: Don’t accept food, never mind ancient yeast colonies, from strangers in the woods.
— John Hodgman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023 -
After slavery was abolished, the British looked around to the colonies, especially in India, for people to replace that labor source.
— Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2025 -
Spain ceded sovereignty over its Philippine colony after its defeat in the Spanish-American War in 1898.
— Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
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