How to Use colony in a Sentence

colony

noun

• Massachusetts was one of the original 13 British colonies that later became the United States.
• If that builds up in your bin, that too can wipe out your colony.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Dense colonies of aphids can be found along stems or on the undersides of leaves.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• The colony has now reached about 3,000 birds and its population is stable, Lyons tells the AP.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• The film is a space opera that follows a young woman living in a peaceful colony on the outskirts of the galaxy.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 28 Aug. 2023
• Charles is the monarch of 14 former British colonies as well as the U.K., and the king has tentatively addressed the legacy of the empire.
  — Jill Lawless, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2023
• At the time of this publication, there are no confirmed colonies of this species.
  — Cole Sikes Communications and Marketing Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 16 Aug. 2023
• The sights and sounds are meant to trick passing birds into thinking the island is a busy breeding colony.
  — Tim Lydon, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
• Then there was the grueling trip to the new world, the colony’s collapse and, now, a solo journey that makes up the greater part of this story.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The Borgue Coast is home to large seabird colonies, as well as dune grassland vegetation.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• Now the zoo has revealed that its capybara colony has grown to 11 with the new addition of five new pups that were born just two weeks ago.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 2 Apr. 2023
• Colonists laid others in the first half of the 18th century to connect the frontier to more populated areas of the colonies.
  — Jayne Orenstein, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• Members of a colony use their stingers to capture the plankton that feeds their shared digestive system.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 3 May 2023
• Even at air temperatures close to freezing, the colonies were about 1°C colder.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 5 May 2023
• Some of those colonies reside in the jelly blob-like float, while others reside in its tentacles.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 6 July 2023
• Her current mate, Einstein, rejoined the colony on Sunday.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 23 June 2023
• Such tube worm colonies have been documented in the Gulf of Mexico on the steel luxury yacht Anona.
  — Avery Paxton, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• That’s partly because Germany lost its colonies in 1919.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
• But no direct test had ever been performed in a highly social setting, such as in a fruit bat colony.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
• Each colony features one crew member who takes on the most dangerous jobs on the mission — jobs that will assuredly lead to their deaths.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2024
• But these days, Sudan is not among the group of 56 Commonwealth nations that include many former British colonies.
  — Nick Perry, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• The Gulf of Maine, which has puffin colonies on its islands, is warming faster than most of the world’s oceans, and some recent years have been especially warm.
  — Patrick Whittle, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• In the process, the scientists using satellites discovered the four colonies that had never been recorded.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024
• Set in a clearing, the shiny green-and-white structures looked a bit like a friendly Mars colony: six domes with king beds and two family suites, all with plenty of space between them.
  — Carleigh Baker, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024