How to Use settler in a Sentence

settler

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  • From time to time, a settler’s car inched its way through the crowd.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • By the late 1910s, Dgheyay Kaq’ also referred to the settler town.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Bennett briefly served as head of the West Bank settler's council, Yesha.
    — Laurie Kellman, ajc, 3 June 2021
  • Footage shows heavy smoke engulfing the air, as settlers fire gunshots in the area.
    — Abeer Salman, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Boaz Tanami, an Israeli settler, and his family live on the first floor and the rest of the second.
    — New York Times, 7 June 2021
  • 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
  • The waves of grass soon enticed settlers from the Eastern United States and Europe.
    — Franz Burnier, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Many Arabs in Lod view the group with suspicion because of its ties with the West Bank settler movement.
    — Fox News, 8 June 2021
  • As noted in the previous Portals, the first settler moved into the area in 1847.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Once on the fringes of Israeli politics, the settler movement now makes up the vanguard of the Israeli right.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 May 2021
  • More than likely, Martian settlers will need to grow their own food.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024
  • At the turn of the 20th century, allotment and leasing acts opened up land to white settlers.
    — Cy Neff, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 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
  • Moore’s story is one that fits in with those early Black settlers in Canada.
    — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • At one point, Chaplin was fined by the courts for speaking ill of another settler.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 16 Nov. 2020
  • By the 1600s, more and more settlers arrived and began herding cattle and horses.
    — Anna Mahan, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The first mouth calls were leaves, which were likely used by settlers and native Americans.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2020
  • 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
  • Near the turn of the century, the messianic Ghost Dance spread rapidly among the tribes of the West, prophesying the return of the dead and the end of settler dominion.
    — New York Times, 15 Sep. 2021
  • There was a spike of attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians, killing dozens.
    — Mick Krever, CNN, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Inside, several headstones commemorate the lives of some of the early settlers of the region.
    — Blane Bachelor, AFAR Media, 12 Feb. 2025

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