colonize - use in sentences

Object

  • planet: He had been picked by the planet's leaders to help colonize an uninhabited planet.
  • society: Rather, its network must actively colonize the society of such resisters just as its network infiltrates societies of consumers or of subsistence farmers.
  • space: Humanists must colonize the new space along with the rest of the teeming multitude that throngs the Internet Fair.

Modifying Another Word

  • rapidly: Other plants, typical of waste ground in general, will also rapidly colonize bare patches on the dunes.
  • never: Children in need oppression by colonizing never lived without.

Preposition: by

  • bacterium: Beside these obvious effects, plants are often colonized by endophytic bacteria not showing any effect at all.

Modifying Another Word

  • first: A new community of plants, animals, fungi and micro-organisms has largely replaced the earliest pioneer species which first colonized the bare ground.
  • formerly: Coming from a formerly colonized country, I feel very strongly for the stories that Holloway narrated earlier during his talk.
  • then: England then colonized Australia, sending out fleets of settlers.

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