colony
Example Sentences
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When he was “discharged to the colony,” my dad joined Stanley’s roster of volunteers who read everything out loud to him from correspondence to proofs of articles.
From Salon
The former French colony became a one-party communist state, King Savang Vatthana died in captivity, and centralised planning was imposed on the economy as landlocked Laos, always remote, became increasingly isolated.
From Barron's
Paterson persuaded the Scottish parliament to establish a new enterprise based on England’s East India Company to found a Scottish colony on the narrow isthmus joining North and South America.
The former Portuguese colony has seen nine coups or attempted coups since 1980.
From BBC
What sounds like the storyline of a medieval palace drama often plays out in real-life honey bee colonies.
From Science Daily
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