colony

Example Sentences

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According to Russian accounts, the 47-year-old took a short walk at his Siberian penal colony, said he felt unwell, then collapsed and never regained consciousness.

From BBC

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was almost certainly killed by a poison derived from a rare frog toxin in an Arctic prison colony two years ago, several European governments said Saturday.

From The Wall Street Journal

But it also holds the archives from the 1960s and 70s of Belgian companies that ceased operations in the former colony, including geological maps.

From Barron's

A large colony of small birds, by the sound of it.

From Literature

Like Puerto Rico, Hawaii became a U.S. colony in 1898 — and both islands have struggled against increasing gentrification and the displacement of local communities by wealthy outsiders.

From Los Angeles Times