How to Use colonizer in a Sentence

colonizer

noun
  • Kendrick called him a colonizer and haters have come out of the woodwork to bring him down.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 12 June 2024
  • That wasn't the case in the 1800s as European colonizers moved in the the Ohio Valley.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2023
  • And the metaphor of a vampire as a colonizer—that’s real too.
    — Essence, 1 May 2025
  • To seize the land, colonizers first had to subdue the women.
    — oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2023
  • There is the Paiute tribe, which has a different outlook on the colonizers than the Shoshone.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The city's first colonizers, a thousand years before Christ, were the Phoenicians.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
  • Wayne also forced most of those that remained from their lands, opening the way for white colonizers.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2024
  • This was Fanon in reverse: bloodshed as balm not for the colonized but the colonizer.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • That Haitians pulled off the world’s largest and most successful slave revolt against French colonizers to achieve their freedom?
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • New Zealand's colonizers first took the name, then the mountain itself, which the bills states was in breach of a treaty the Crown signed with Māori representatives.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • This is the latest in a series of coups and coup attempts against governments with ties to France, the region's former colonizer.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Zulu takes its name from the Black South African resistance army that fought British colonizers in the 19th century.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Dutch colonizers took control of the island in 1634, and Curaçao became a major depot and trading post on the Atlantic slave trade.
    — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 28 July 2024
  • But, when colonizers razed native forests to make room for sugarcane, pineapple, and cattle, the area dried out.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
  • For him, the world divided neatly into two groups, the colonized and the colonizer.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The phrase is apt in the case of South Korea, whose industrial mentor was also its colonizer: Japan.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Those who wanted to keep the human remains on display were called colonizers.
    — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • Many residents of Saint-Louis can no longer bear the sight of a colonizer’s statue, but what to do with the remnants of a troubled colonial past remains contentious.
    — New York Times, 5 May 2022
  • The film is a searing reminder of the exploitation that Indigenous people have endured at the hands of colonizers.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The Kumeyaay people lived in the region for thousands of years before Spanish colonizers arrived, and used both stone and wood arrowheads to hunt.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2025
  • What transmits over Mali’s radio waves may signal a broader shift in the West African country away from the language of its former colonizer.
    — Shera Avi-Yonah, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • And even a positive test may not mean the fungus is doing damage; Aspergillus can also be present in the lungs as a harmless colonizer.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Science | AAAS, 22 Mar. 2021
  • This map represents one viewpoint: that of the colonizer.
    — Abby Levene, Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Its colonizers have made their home in the seaside neighborhood’s rocks, terraces, beaches and caves.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Skeptics point out that the country’s cultural heritage is still stuck in a pattern mapped out by their colonizers.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The small baitfish found in the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is an ardent colonizer.
    — WIRED, 24 June 2023
  • In both countries, Indigenous cultures were repressed and sidelined by British colonizers, and the legacy of that persists to this day.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • Over the centuries, wave after wave of immigrants and colonizers landed here, each making a mark.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Indigenous artists and artists descended from New Mexico’s Spanish colonizers will show at the fair.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Before borders, before enslavement and colonizers, before history books tried to tell our story for us—there were kings, queens, warriors, and visionaries ruling across the African continent.
    — Essence, 3 June 2025

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