Sentence examples for their colony from inspiring English sources

For nearly two and a half centuries, Dutch plantation masters staffed their colony with coerced laborers from the furthest reaches of their colonial empire.

Belgian colonialists had done that decades ago to rule their colony in Central Africa, the Congo.

The sagas say that Indian attacks forced the Vikings to abandon their colony within a decade.

In 1963 the Dutch agreed to hand over control of their colony to Indonesia.

The $6bn £3.8bnn) spent on the event has seen no improvements for their colony.

The hoarding that had cut off their colony bore the words: "Come out and play".

His disappointment fortifies his belief that "the British governed their colony of Nigeria with considerable care".

Worker honeybees (Apis mellifera) perform suicidal attacks on intruders to defend their colony.

Bees sting only under duress -- when they feel that the safety and livelihood of their colony is in peril.

Their colony in the Bronx already is devastated by so many ills: homelessness, hunger and rampant disease.

I hope their colony thrives and they play nice and things don't get Lord of the Flies up there.