How to Use colonize in a Sentence

colonize

verb

• Weeds quickly colonized the field.
• The island had been colonized by plants and animals.
• The area was colonized in the 18th century.
• The hero who is going to colonize Mars doesn’t know what Mars looks like.
  — Fox News, 24 June 2019
• This is often how spiders colonize new areas and why they can sometimes be seen floating in the breeze.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
• Voice software has colonized smartphones, car dashboards and the living room.
  — Matt Day, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• The Outer Worlds trades the post-apocalypse for a brighter future where humans have colonized the stars.
  — Time, 11 June 2019
• Eukaryotes have since spread across the world, breaking out of primordial pools to colonize glaciers, deserts and everywhere in between.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
• With time, the sap oozes down the bark and eventually turns black because it is colonized by an ever present fungus with the very appropriate name of sooty mold.
  — oregonlive.com, 14 June 2019
• Playing on hard mode Trying to colonize a new, uninhabited land is a challenge.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 19 June 2019
• And that might have allowed the organism to colonize more environments than other microbes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Apr. 2019
• Plant-fungi interactions are rich symbiotic pacts that go back to when plants first colonized land around 500 million years ago.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
• So for those seeking glory for themselves and their nations, the last places left to behold offered little to plunder and colonize, and the only reason to go to them was to be the first.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2019
• That’s a scenario that fosters diversification, as seen when species colonize islands today.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Apr. 2019
• After colonizing Africa, the wormy shocktroops of infestation crept stealthily on.
  — Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 20 June 2019
• Much of the roof is gone, and weeds colonize what remains of the floor.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
• Space agencies from around the world hope to colonize the moon one day.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2020
• Jeff Bezos seems to have run out of things to colonize here on Earth.
  — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 7 June 2021
• The microbes that colonize cheese come from many places.
  — Ute Eberle, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2022
• In Italy, the truffles grow in select spots, colonizing near the roots of oak, beech and poplar trees.
  — Bernhard Warner, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• At the time the helmet was in use, the Roman Empire was in the early stages of colonizing Britain.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
• Since the first blocks of marble were sunk in 2015—and rapidly colonized by fish and plants— the gallery has grown steadily.
  — Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
• By that year, waterwheels had colonized the edges of Big Pond in New York.
  — Marion Renault, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2019
• And don't forget, Elon's vision is to go to Mars and colonize Mars.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 June 2024
• The film stars Robert Pattinson and centers on a clone that’s sent to colonize a new world.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2023
• The pressure pushes out colonized sap that oozes down the branches and trunk.
  — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2019
• This is not the first time terns have navigated to the Long Beach Harbor to colonize.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
• England asks about colonizing the world for spices, only to find out salt is too much.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
• Still, there's a mad scramble under way to colonize the streets.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 14 June 2021
• The ship moved on, and Spain didn’t colonize California until the late 1700s.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024