colonial
Example Sentences
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A lot of my wealth is locked up in real estate, a simple three-bedroom colonial that shakes if you slam the front door.
The sugar industry, the engine of the economy since colonial times, is now in tatters.
The president's family also faces the threat of an embezzlement investigation in France, the country's former colonial ruler, where they have extensive property holdings.
From Barron's
Many Americans in this 250th year of independence will look back proudly on those colonials who rebelled against British taxation by dumping tea in Boston Harbor.
People called it different names according to their languages, but when the white men came in the colonial days, they named it the Volta.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
