How to Use settler in a Sentence

settler

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  • The plant is native to Europe and was brought over to the United States by settlers in the 1800s.
    — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Many graves date back to around 1850 when settlers first formed the graveyard.
    — Madeline Cisneros, EW.com, 5 May 2024
  • The olive branch, stands for the settlers, and the peace pipe, for Indigenous people, appear on top of the shield.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Footage shows heavy smoke engulfing the air, as settlers fire gunshots in the area.
    — Abeer Salman, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Junior settler MJ Hamill finished with 21 assists, 11 in the fourth set, and a team-high three aces.
    — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The town was founded by German settlers in 1837 and named after the German city.
    — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In their view, the state and even mainstream settler leaders have not been hard-line enough and in turn have lost their moral standing.
    — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2021
  • As noted in the previous Portals, the first settler moved into the area in 1847.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2022
  • More than likely, Martian settlers will need to grow their own food.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024
  • Shasta County was home to some of the first settlers to California, who were drawn to the area during the Gold Rush.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
  • For many years the caves had little protection, and few settlers knew of their full extent.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
  • The attack by the settlers was part of an escalating wave of tit-for-tat violence in the West Bank.
    — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The top third of the mound belongs to Osage Nation, but there are two settler houses on lower tiers.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2024
  • One Palestinian man was killed by a settler who shot him in the abdomen, the man’s family said.
    — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
  • By the 1600s, more and more settlers arrived and began herding cattle and horses.
    — Anna Mahan, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Guests can walk the same streets as settlers in the 1850s, peer into windows of homes that still have the table set, and even take a ghost tour in the late summer or early fall.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Fireworks were created centuries ago and came to the New World with the early settlers from Europe.
    — Maggie Scales, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • The police in the West Bank are almost completely settlers and militia.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Calves died, as did some adult cows, and some settlers thought cattle were poisoning themselves at wells and springs.
    — Will McCarthy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • The effort to curb the Supreme Court is also considered by many in the opposition as an act of revenge by the settlers.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • Some early settlers may have seen divine providence in the name.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Brought over by settlers in the 1800s to hunt rats on ships, feral cats thrived, living on an island full of species that were not adapted to escape them.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • It was named Utopia by German settlers, who were said to have been fascinated by the abundance of rabbits that were easy to catch.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
  • At the same time, the northern West Bank has seen a sharp jump in settler violence against Palestinians in recent months.
    — Josef Federman, ajc, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Tellingly, that withdrawal was backed by the Supreme Court, one of several decisions that put the court in the cross hairs of the settler movement.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Wednesday's ancestor Goody seems to be a white settler.
    — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • A week or so ago, for example, settlers attacked a town called Huwara and burned houses and property and cars and so on.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The first permanent white settler in this region was Henry Rapp, who arrived in about 1810.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2022
  • During his speech, the king acknowledged Australia’s First Nations people, who lived on the land before British settlers.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The sport is deeply woven into Hawaiian culture because the early settlers arrived on these islands by canoe).
    — Julia Ries, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2024

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