How to Use colony in a Sentence
colony
noun- Massachusetts was one of the original 13 British colonies that later became the United States.
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That started to change once the city began to be reborn as an artists’ colony.
— Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024 -
And their nests can become home to colonies of aggressive wasps that nest in the ground too.
— Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2024 -
While prairie dog colonies are asleep, the ferrets sweep into their burrows and catch them by surprise.
— Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2024 -
Claire Foy plays Salome Friesen, the colony’s firebrand.
— Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022 -
Rybakov was sentenced to six years in a penal colony above the Arctic Circle and Volkov to seven years.
— Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022 -
Krivanek says she was assaulted in the Russian penal colony by another inmate.
— Mark Guarino, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2022 -
The point of leaving isn’t to reject belief, but to reestablish it on a firmer, more coherent moral basis, to imagine ‘a new colony’ of trust and safety.
— Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2022 -
The researchers observed a colony of 146 degus who were getting on in years and put them all through a test to evaluate their cognitive abilities.
— Bytristan Bove, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2022 -
Buckley, meanwhile, plays the devoutly religious Mariche, who is reluctant to leave the colony in fear that she and her children will be denied entry into heaven.
— Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2022 -
The film begins with a quick recap of the events of the first movie, and shows how the humans returned to establish a colony, bulldozing more sacred trees to build a grimy industrial city, with the help of some cool bug robots.
— Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022 -
Zack Snyder heads to Netflix with a space opera about a young woman (played by Sofia Boutella) who is seeking warriors who can help protect her peaceful colony.
— Shannon Carlin, Time, 16 Dec. 2022 -
If that builds up in your bin, that too can wipe out your colony.
— Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023 -
Then the chicks will be ready to live with the colony and make their zoo debut in the habitat.
— Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 15 May 2024 -
For starters, both a queen and a king are needed to start a termite colony.
— Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 5 May 2023 -
The former British colony still pegs the value of its money to that of the US dollar.
— Laura He, CNN, 13 June 2023 -
Inside, the colony looked like a train station at rush hour.
— Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023 -
Women in the colony are taught to vote and must decide on one of the three outcomes.
— Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023 -
There, he’s put under arrest, and the colony’s men go to bail him out.
— Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023 -
In the absence of the rest of the colony’s men, who’ve left town to bail the rapists out of jail, the women must decide what comes next.
— Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 24 Jan. 2023 -
Dense colonies of aphids can be found along stems or on the undersides of leaves.
— Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023 -
Green sweat bees Green sweat bees often nest in the ground or wood and live alone rather than in colonies.
— Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2023 -
Penguins nesting on the fringes of the colony had longer, deeper sleeps than those in the middle.
— Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023 -
Ants need to defend their colony, seek food and take care of offspring.
— Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023 -
In the greenhouses, the urchins sometimes share tanks with small coral colonies to help keep the coral algae-free.
— Lisa S. Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024 -
First of all: Don’t accept food, never mind ancient yeast colonies, from strangers in the woods.
— John Hodgman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023 -
But not all colonies will recover in 20 or even 30 years, Jones notes.
— Ethan Freedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2024 -
Mind you, Svarthamaren has long been described as the world’s largest colony of antarctic petrels.
— Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 13 Mar. 2023 -
The colony has now reached about 3,000 birds and its population is stable, Lyons tells the AP.
— Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023 -
The film is a space opera that follows a young woman living in a peaceful colony on the outskirts of the galaxy.
— Zack Sharf, Variety, 28 Aug. 2023
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