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'colony' in a sentence

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colony noun

: a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

: a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

: a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

: (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell


  • Both ants and termites live in large colonies.
  • Brazil was a Portuguese colony.
  • At one time Nigeria was a British colony.
  • Cyprus was a British colony.
  • Scientists have just discovered a colony of flying penguins living in Antarctica.
  • The colony declared independence and became a republic.
  • The other colonies began sending troops to help.
  • The hospital for this Mars colony is underground.
  • Papua New Guinea was a German colony.
  • The entire colony will inherit the mutant DNA.
  • In this colony he is lord of life and death.
  • Some say that China was like a Russian colony.
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