How to Use colonizer in a Sentence

colonizer

noun
  • For the colonizers, worse still was to come.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Kendrick called him a colonizer and haters have come out of the woodwork to bring him down.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 12 June 2024
  • And the metaphor of a vampire as a colonizer—that’s real too.
    — Essence, 1 May 2025
  • The colonizer’s poetry has no bones next to the lyric of ours.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
  • What about the other ninety-nine per cent, not the colonizers?
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Wayne also forced most of those that remained from their lands, opening the way for white colonizers.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2024
  • Those who wanted to keep the human remains on display were called colonizers.
    — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • 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
  • There is the Paiute tribe, which has a different outlook on the colonizers than the Shoshone.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
  • This was clearly outside the purview of the colonizer, who saw land as a resource held under his dominion.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Irish was cherished as part of the new state’s heritage, and as a marker of distinction from its former colonizer.
    — Big Think, 4 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • This time around, a new crew of colonizers encounter those deadly extraterrestrials with the acidic blood.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
  • Their biting wit turned upon whiteness and the colonizer has served as much inspiration.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • These lessons were often one-sided, focusing on the bravery and hardship of the colonizers.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The city's first colonizers, a thousand years before Christ, were the Phoenicians.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
  • For him, the world divided neatly into two groups, the colonized and the colonizer.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
  • European colonizers in lands that became the United States did link church and state.
    — Peter C. Mancall, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
  • Most of the microbes found were environmental or post-mortem colonizers.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Later, colonizers cut down the trees to plant pineapple and sugarcane; the land dried out and became vulnerable to fire.
    — Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2026
  • 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
  • Dark visions and secrets quickly come to light, as Mārama grapples with her heritage in the shadow of colonizers.
    — William Earl, Variety, 26 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • As a hotbed of resistance against its British colonizers, Bengal’s freedom struggle was fought as much with ideas as with weapons.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, his first stop was Japan — South Korea’s former colonizer.
    — Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
  • They were built by Europeans – the Spanish colonizers.
    — Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025

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