How to Use colonization in a Sentence

colonization

noun

• Most changes have come through the brute force of colonization.
  — Kaitlyn Swan, refinery29.com, 30 June 2021
• There's no limit to the harm that is, can be, has been, and will be caused by colonization.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 22 June 2021
• But few would say that Africans weren’t dealt a truly lousy card by colonization.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• Musk has said the concept could work well in his future plans for Mars colonization.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• Now there were a lot fewer Wampanoag to complain about colonization.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2019
• His novels have often stemmed from his belief that the legacy of colonization has been played down.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• While the effort has set into high gear, there are plenty of critics of space colonization.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 9 May 2023
• Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and a top contender for future space missions and maybe even colonization.
  — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• But Menard could be just as voluble in his defense of the colonization plan.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2018
• The Ohlone lived here for thousands of years before colonization.
  — Otis R. Taylor Jr., San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2018
• This crisis is the result of hundreds of years of genocide and colonization.
  — Kali Simmons, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2021
• Mauna Kea is a product of the long-standing hand of colonization.
  — Eunica Escalante, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2021
• Why was there slavery, colonization, or oppression in any form?
  — Kevin Powell, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
• And the results for colonization estimates are about the same as before.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 June 2020
• Walter, the crew synthetic aboard the colonization ship Covenant, is one of these.
  — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
• And while space tourism is one thing, mining and colonization of the moon and asteroids is another.
  — Lane Sainty, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024
• The board said the names were linked to slavery, oppression, genocide and colonization.
  — Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2021
• Honey bees soon became a symbol of colonization, and not always a welcome one.
  — Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
• Deivid, on the other hand, is enamored with the Mars colonization project and dreams of going to space.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2023
• Critics of the practice have said the process is racially skewed against the Maori, and is a legacy of colonization.
  — Reuters, CNN, 16 Dec. 2020
• In some ways, the current crisis is a new version of what has been happening from the age of colonization onward.
  — Tatiana Schlossberg, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2022
• There are three main aspects to the vision being laid out by Musk (setting aside his plans for space colonization).
  — Paris Marx, Wired, 5 July 2022
• The grand goal of the Chinese state is to complete the colonization of Xinjiang.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
• Tribes have been adapting for a long time to the traumas of colonization of the West, Chischilly said.
  — Ian James, azcentral, 17 Nov. 2019
• The faster growth sits in those same non-blood specimens, much of it colonization rather than serious infection.
  — John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• This myth seems to have stemmed from a small study in mice that showed the nasal spray influenza vaccine led to an increase in group A strep colonization.
  — Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022
• Yet the competent and principled men on the island were wiped out under colonization.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025
• The area had once been the home of the Tongva people, Gorman noted, pre-colonization.
  — Doreen St. Félix, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2021
• But Musk was still set on setting foot in the comedy world—even while setting his sights on, well, Mars colonization.
  — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 15 Mar. 2018
• Then a sequence of colonizations over four centuries by the Portuguese, Dutch and British shaped the city.
  — Scott Hocker, theweek, 15 Apr. 2024