How to Use settler in a Sentence

settler

noun

• 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
• By the 1600s, more and more settlers arrived and began herding cattle and horses.
  — Anna Mahan, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Fireworks were created centuries ago and came to the New World with the early settlers from Europe.
  — Maggie Scales, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
• Calves died, as did some adult cows, and some settlers thought cattle were poisoning themselves at wells and springs.
  — Will McCarthy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
• The effort to curb the Supreme Court is also considered by many in the opposition as an act of revenge by the settlers.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 23 July 2023
• Some early settlers may have seen divine providence in the name.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• Brought over by settlers in the 1800s to hunt rats on ships, feral cats thrived, living on an island full of species that were not adapted to escape them.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• It was named Utopia by German settlers, who were said to have been fascinated by the abundance of rabbits that were easy to catch.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
• The new settlers established a wide network of cotton plantations that crisscrossed the state and brought in enslaved people to work the land and tend to their homes.
  — Dana Shavin, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2024
• No settler has been arrested or charged in connection with his death.
  — Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, 15 June 2023
• President Biden has spoken to the role of extremist settlers in that context.
  — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2023
• This is followed by scenes depicting how settlers braved the ocean and ploughed the land, punctuated by Taiwanese folk music and the pounding drums.
  — Wayne Chang, CNN, 12 May 2023
• The film is based on the 2017 book of the same name by David Grann and tells the story of the Osage people of Oklahoma after the discovery of oil on their land leads white settlers to murder them for their wealth.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2023
• The first vineyards were planted by Swiss settlers in the early 1800s and many of their descendants continue to grow grapes and make fine wines in Victoria.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2024
• The herd's close cousins, the eastern elk, were hunted to extinction by early European settlers.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 20 Feb. 2024
• Anglo settlers mined bat guano from the cave to make gunpowder during the Civil War, and legend says that outlaw Sam Bass hid $2 million inside the cave.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2023
• The film chronicles the true story of the mass murders of wealthy Osage people in Oklahoma by white settlers wanting to obtain their land rights.
  — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Dec. 2023
• The new state seal features a loon amid wild rice, to replace the image of a Native American riding off into the sunset while a white settler plows his field with a rifle at the ready.
  — Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
• California’s complex system of water rights took shape starting in the mid-1800s, when settlers saw the state’s water as abundant and free for the taking.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
• Of the courage of pioneering settlers, the backbreaking work of families, the creation of sunny open spaces and the pride of farm ownership.
  — Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• This is old plantation country, a part of the Mississippi Delta, where settlers and slave owners long ago cleared the forest to plant cotton.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
• In the following centuries, as settlers moved to the West, the state became a destination for commercial dairy farmers.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Rabbit Hash in Boone County, which today is famous for having a dog as the mayor, was initially named for all the rabbits the early settlers ate.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2023
• Soldiers were there to stop cars mostly during the morning and evening commutes to reduce the flow of Palestinian traffic onto a road shared with settlers.
  — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
• They were introduced by settlers to Australia for hunting purposes in the mid-1800s.
  — Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2023
• The United Nations said 120 Palestinians had been killed in clashes with settlers or with the Israeli army, with most dying in clashes with soldiers.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Our common name for the species, the American robin, was given to it by European settlers who thought the bird reminded them of the European robin, Volkert said.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
• Israel withdrew its remaining settlers and soldiers from the strip in 2005, paving the way for a policy that increasingly sealed off the enclave from the world.
  — By jared Malsin, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2023
• The old flag was criticized for its depiction of a Native American riding away on horseback while a white settler tilled a field.
  — Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 12 May 2024