Sentence examples for settlement spread from inspiring English sources

Following construction of a transcontinental railway in the early 1880s, further settlement spread across the plains.

Settlement spread outward into parts of the colony with dangerously low rainfall.

Most other groups intermarried and assimilated with the newcomers, and settlement spread across the south of Finland.

The population rose rapidly, settlement spread across the Piedmont, and the wealth and quality of life expanded.

The bounds of settlement spread outward as pastoralists took their sheep and cattle farther afield, "squatting" on land not yet surveyed, policed, or legally available to them.

While settlement spread on the east coast, some areas to the north lost status—such as São Cristóvão, which became an industrial and lower-class residential neighbourhood.

Superordinate control at the tribal level was generally avoided, although the consolidation of tribelets into larger coalescent groups and even the formation of intertribal confederacies occurred as European settlements spread in the region.

In essence, the massive increase of settlements spread over the northwestern delta in Classical Antiquity was spurred by multiple branches that provided routes of transportation, fresh water for irrigation and good conditions for agriculture on their elevated and fertile levees.

But with their stories of remote anarchist settlements spread throughout a vast cosmos, Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons, Excession, etc, deal with similar themes to No Man's Sky.

Thus the household moggie, a feline immigrant from the Middle East arrived in the homes of Britain, while the nation's own wildcats – made up of members of the larger, stronger striped species of European wildcat, Felis silvestris silvestris, were pushed to the margins of the nation as settlements spread and its wild places were stripped away.

Residents can recall providers laughing over the phone at their request for an Internet hookup, or the perplexed look of technicians upon arriving in Verrua Savoia, where just 1,500 residents live in dozens of small settlements spread over nearly 20 miles of valleys and steep hillsides in northern Italy.