How to Use Columbian in a Sentence

Columbian

1 of 2 adjective
  • Most important are the Columbian ruffed grouse and the Pacific ruffed grouse.
    — Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Columbian monkshood is widely available, both its seeds and as starter plants, through Internet vendors.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
  • That would make sense if all Columbian mammoths clustered together with the Mexican ones.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The Columbian exchange had some positive attributes, and negative ones, too.
    — Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In one instance, there were two survivors, one Columbian, one Ecuadorian in a different strike.
    — CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • In contrast, the Columbian mammoth ranged as far south as Central America.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • And these mammoths appear to form a distinct genetic cluster, and are all more closely related to each other than to any other woolly or Columbian mammoths.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • That would make Columbian mammoths less of a distinct species and more of a collection of hybrid populations that may have been kept somewhat isolated from each other by distance.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • As long as the hybridization event involved enough individuals, then some of these lineages would have ended up in the population that produced what became the Columbian mammoth.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • For over a decade, the DEA ran a money laundering operation for a Columbian narcotics trafficking cartel.
    — Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Taking the stage with a full band, backup singers, and a mic stand wrapped in the Columbian flag, Maluma performed a joyful rendition of his heartfelt track for fans gathered in Vegas and watching around the world.
    — Rolling Stone, 25 May 2026
  • Afterwards, enjoy a concert with DJ Cassidy and Columbian musician Carlos Vives.
    — Susan B. Barnes, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
  • So, what may be needed is a more exhaustive look at the Columbian mammoths that remained further north, where DNA is more likely to have survived the millennia since their extinction.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Leading protagonist McLusky has taken on the Russian mob, Aryan Brotherhood gangs and Columbian drug dealers, but Frank Moses is a smoother and more calculating criminal.
    — Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Fakroune is accused of posing as Angelino Escobar, the son of the famed Columbian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, and lying to people about his connections to nonexistent Italian mafiosos to ensure payback on his loans.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • If your South Dakota road trip brings you through Hot Springs—home to the largest concentration of Columbian mammoth bones in the world—swing by Wandering Bison Coffee for breakfast sandwiches and pastries for breakfast or chili, salads, and wraps for lunch.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Mike is a focused man, but Bunny, eating up the dream that Moses is selling to him about keeping his criminal enterprise while making the books look like legitimate businesses, and a deadly Columbian Cartel trying to move in and take over the Russians spot, are all serving as new distractions.
    — Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, it's billed as the smallest, lightest Escape trailer ever, bookending the Escape lineup opposite the E23 Escape launched in 2023 as the British Columbian company's largest model.
    — New Atlas, 2 Dec. 2025
  • This led a Mexican-European research collaboration to get interested in finding DNA from elsewhere in the Columbian mammoth's range, which extended down into Central America.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025

Columbian

2 of 2 noun
  • The Columbian is a gray phase bird found in the eastern regions; the Pacific is a red-phase bird found on the western slopes.
    — Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The World’s Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • Keam sent some of her pieces to the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.
    — Kathleen Sharp, ProPublica, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Keam sent some of her pieces to the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.
    — Kathleen Sharp For Propublica, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • In just five months' time, more than 25 million people visited the World's Columbian Exposition.
    — Noel Brennan, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The World’s Columbian Exposition, aka the Chicago World’s Fair, opened to the public.
    — USA Today, 1 May 2026
  • Pumpkins were introduced to Europe from North America through the Columbian Exchange.
    — Shelley Mitchell, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Before the pandemic, camping accounted for 11% of all vacation-type trips, The Columbian reported.
    — Maddie Capron, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Holmes would target tourists in town for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, butcher them, and sell their skeletons to medical schools.
    — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The sculpture is located at the site of the Japanese Pavilion from the World’s Columbian Exposition.
    — Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • The area surrounding the Columbian Basin in Jackson Park is home to about 200 pink and white cherry blossom trees that typically bloom each spring.
    — Armando L. Sanchez, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • In 1890, Chicago was selected to host the World's Columbian Exposition.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • His defense attorneys did not dispute the affair, but argued that Marcy’s recurring headaches caused a seizure that resulted in her death, The Columbian reported from court.
    — Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The museum spans almost one million square feet and is housed in a gorgeous beaux-arts building that was designed for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2021
  • Ground was broken in Jackson Park for construction of buildings for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Because of the Columbian Exchange, these peppers that originated in the Americas have become staples of Indian cuisine.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The Columbian Exchange picked up momentum thereafter, as Europe sent people, money, plants and animals, along withdiseases and weapons, to the Americas.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Their protest of the exclusion of blacks from the Columbian Exposition amounted to the argument that to erase the history of black accomplishment was to erase the history of America itself.
    — William B. Allen, National Review, 28 July 2023
  • The 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition added the midway — the rides, games and food vendors that turned fairs into the all-day adventures kids love today.
    — Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
  • For example, Columbian Elementary, which closed this year and was on the clock, is based in northwest Denver, where gentrification and high housing costs have reduced the number of children living in the region.
    — Jessica Seaman, Denver Post, 23 June 2025
  • That’s because the eye-catching shingle style brownstone structure started its life elsewhere—in Chicago at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893.
    — Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Other favorites include the prairie habitat of Bobolink Meadow at the eastern edge of Jackson Park lagoon, and the collection of cherry blossom trees ringing the Columbian Basin.
    — Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • This was a year before the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 took over Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance nearby.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • In 1893, both the park and the Midway were the proud site of the World's Columbian Exposition, but Jackson Park has a history going back before that.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • Still, that fair remains overshadowed by the World’s Columbian Exposition and its White City that Chicago had erected 40 years previously.
    — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The first Ferris wheel was assembled in Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and spun on the Midway Plaisance.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • Visitors boarded the the giant wheel during its debut on June 15, 1893, at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2026
  • In 1893, a vegetarian exhibit was included in the World's Columbian Exposition.
    — Mikayla Price, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The statue is an enduring and familiar symbol of the World's Columbian Exposition, but is not the same one that was mounted on a pedestal in the World's Fair's Court of Honor waterway.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • The origins of the Chicago Municipal Device date back to 1892, when the Tribune ran a contest a year ahead of the World Columbian Exposition.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026

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