How to Use settler in a Sentence

settler

noun

• From time to time, a settler’s car inched its way through the crowd.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• The settlers spent one night in the library.
  — Ryan Byrnes, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
• He was picked up by settlers and brought to Kansas.
  — Kansas City Star, 7 June 2026
• One settler can be seen aiming his rifle at the top floor of the home.
  — ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
• The area was later named in his honor, as more settlers moved in.
  — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2026
• Our task, in all these cases, is to film the settlers and call the army and police.
  — Sam Fleischacker, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
• The settlers also brought crops and livestock with them.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
• Do settlers take advantage of the chaos?
  — Dahlia Krutkovich, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2026
• These white settlers came in successive waves.
  — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
• More than likely, Martian settlers will need to grow their own food.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024
• First, settlers pushed in on Indians and drove away their game.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
• Testing the settlers’ resolve could be risky.
  — Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
• With settlers in government, such plans cannot be dismissed as fringe.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
• Footage shows heavy smoke engulfing the air, as settlers fire gunshots in the area.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
• Hundreds of would-be settlers set sail for the fictional land.
  — Scott Neuman, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
• Ducks and geese would have been easier for the settlers and the Wampanoag to catch and cook.
  — Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2019
• Here is the sound of the settlers’ war chant, angry words that sent musket balls flying.
  — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
• Early Spanish settlers called this fish grunion, which means grunter.
  — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
• Many graves date back to around 1850 when settlers first formed the graveyard.
  — Madeline Cisneros, EW.com, 5 May 2024
• In centuries-old white pines that covered the hillsides, settlers saw roof beams and ships' masts.
  — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• My life is still at the mercy of the settlers and the occupation.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
• What settler stole this sacred land and is now charging me for these healing waters?
  — Gaby Iori january 27, Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
• The place gets its name from the exploits of settler John Babson.
  — James R. Carroll, USA TODAY, 3 June 2019
• White settlers brought the fiddle from Europe.
  — Frank Langfitt, NPR, 16 Aug. 2025
• The first settlers carved out a home on the frontier and forged our defining national traits.
  — Nina Zafar, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2019
• There have been waves of attacks by Israeli settlers, some of which have been deadly.
  — Greg Dixon, NPR, 2 Dec. 2025
• As night fell over Jerusalem, the settlers still had not vacated the library.
  — Ryan Byrnes, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
• Whose idea was this, and what kinds of settler-colonial relations does this mock holdup invert?
  — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
• Young men from the village confronted the settlers, asking them to leave.
  — Fadwa Hodali, Bloomberg, 8 Mar. 2026
• Mutare was built in 1890 by British settlers drunk on the prospect of gold.
  — Peter Browne, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2019