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Sentence Examples We would rob the tallest mango trees in the colony of their ripest mangos and often dive into the nearby canal for a cool dip. With the echo and reecho of the cave, the colony of bats sounded like the oncoming of a train. Even France's old colony of Algeria treated him like a returning hero on his recent visit. I've stumbled upon quail amidst the redwoods, roadrunners in the Hill Country, and a colony of flamingo in the heart of Hong Kong. You can then gift a fellow aquarist with the culture to begin a vinegar eel colony of their own. I found a colony of small white termites eating up the underside of a board. Isolated from this conflict are the hobbits, a carefree, simple-hearted colony of little people. I have what would seem to be a very active colony of mining bees in both my front and rear garden. I myself am a native of Atlantis, but Rhea is from the Atlantean colony of Nile, which eventually became known as Egypt. Only at the colony of Camulodunum, the first town sacked by Boudica, does the entire settlement appear to have been burnt to the ground. Two million acres of Creek land was given to the new colony of Georgia so it could be sold to satisfy debts to British traders. These creatures are so efficient that a colony of them can strip a citrus tree of its leaves in a single night. There has been a small colony of white helleborines growing at the top of the science car park for at least two years now. More specifically, there is a whole colony of mice, living under the floorboards in my bedroom. Further north Muriwai beach is a favourite spot for viewing New Zealand's northernmost breeding colony of gannets. In its first phase it was no more than a trading station, which most likely provided the base for a colony of foreign merchants. More specifically, there is a whole colony of mice living under the floorboards in my bedroom. One of his biggest successes has been helping to establish a new colony of flamingoes at Auckland Zoo. Thought to be extinct, a last colony of 18 animals was discovered in Wyoming in 1981, and now there are some 1,600 in the West. It is here that a colony of rose-throated becards have made their summer home. Show More Sentences Later I found myself in a veritable colony of carrier shells, Xenophora conchyliophora, each sporting a little green garden on its back. Today the island is home to a large colony of little terns and is the only insular colony in Ireland. Other tended homopterans consisted of a small colony of aphids feeding on P. tremuloides. The island has a colony of flying foxes, bushbabies, monkeys, squirrels and monitor lizards. In summer several species of butterfly can be seen including the brown argus and the largest colony of chalkhill blues in Hertfordshire. Are we an independent and sovereign country, or are we still a camouflaged colony of the superpowers? A nearby rock, the Haystack, has a colony of seals, of which you can see a dozen or so at low tide. Columbine and nicotiana sprouted everywhere, as did a colony of small buddleia. A worm bin is a container housing a colony of special worms, known as brandlings, tiger worms or redworms. Mute swans are responsible for driving the last remaining colony of black skimmers from Chesapeake Bay. Or consider the Portuguese man-of-war, a creature that acts like an individual but is actually a huge colony of beings moving as one. To scientists, that's as bizarre a finding as a queen bee spawning a colony of ants. Nevertheless, these queens also compete for reproductive shares within a colony of limited resources. To burn those extra calories, a colony of 150 weavers with no nest would have to catch and eat 4,500 more insects each day. We leave a little patch of grass around the base of the apple tree uncut each year so the colony of bluebells can flourish. Mexico was a colony of Spain for about 400 years, but there's not much Mudejar architecture anywhere in Mexico. Marius, unprepared for this, had to flee, finding safety at Cercina, a colony of his veterans off Africa. St Kilda is home to the world's largest colony of gannets and the largest colonies of fulmars and puffins in Britain. Brazil was a colony of Portugal until 1822 when Pedro I, the crown prince, declared its independence from the mother country. He has red hair, shouts incessantly and moves as though a colony of ants has invaded his tracksuit trousers. Show More Sentences Some will give a colony of ants an extra push to bring sugar and food to it's families. Somewhere in a rainforest, inside a rotting log, lives a colony of termites. Just after his twentieth birthday, in 1916, Alves Reis lit out for the Portuguese colony of Angola to make his fortune. The Phoenician colony of Carthage became an imperial centre in its own right, and Greek cities such as Syracuse, in Sicily, rivalled the biggest of the city-states in Greece. The Yare Valley colony of Cetti's warblers, centred on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds' Strumpshaw and Surlingham reserves, attracts much interest. Prized discoveries include Lincolnshire's largest colony of the endangered sand leek, a member of the onion family, and the country's biggest concentration of sundew. One rat's nest can turn into a colony of 50 rats in six months. Work has protected wildlife along the route, including measures to keep a colony of protected great crested newts safe, badger tunnels and deer-proof fencing. The sight of a colony of fly orchid was amongst the rewards. He hatched and hand-reared 22 chicks at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge, which is home to the largest colony of breeding flamingoes in the county. Last week, too, environmentalists were incensed by go-aheads for logging in protected forests and oil-drilling on a beach with a colony of rare sea turtles. Every so often, without apparent rhyme or reason, huge areas of my lawn are ripped to shreds, as if a colony of badgers has been holding an all-night party on it. This 27-year-old British-born former model and scuba-diving instructor stumbled across a colony of almost 100 squatters living in shacks next to passing trains and vermin. The bokmakieries, canaries and a colony of vivid European bee-eaters that I spotted gave me just a glimpse of the nearly two hundred bird species that inhabit the reserve. The mangroves in Codrington Lagoon are home to the world's largest colony of frigate birds, perhaps 10,000 in all, carefully protected by local residents. A colony of cherry-headed conures lives close to downtown San Francisco. Of particular interest is the colony of wall lizards in Ventnor. Both tires have deep, conical lugs that grip like a colony of leeches but are spaced well-enough apart to shed even the most adhesive quag with ease. Large fish such as groupers and moray eels can often be found resting next to a colony of shrimps, which flit out and crawl over the fish's skin while cleaning it. It began as a colony of orange growers, but by the 1880s, wealthy Easterners had discovered that the salubrious climate might benefit them as much as it did any orange. Show More Sentences For initial qualitative screening of elevated mutation frequencies in isolates, a single colony of each isolate to be tested was inoculated into 4 ml Luria broth. This temple is situated at Shastrinagar, a newly developed housing colony of Jammu city, named after a saint popularly known as Dudadhari Baba, as he lived only on milk. And by the way, if we really are just a colony of Europe, where did the rock and roll she professed to love so much come from? A small colony of carpet sea squirt, which is originally from Japan, was discovered at Largs yacht haven, Ayrshire. Electricity had paid no attention, and a colony of eye-flies had come instead and blackened the coils with their bodies. There are occasional sightings of wild deer, and there is a colony of wild goats on Ventnor's downs. The original colony of New Netherland was settled by the Dutch and the law was also Dutch. Following the war, Britain gained the German colony of Tanganyika and part of Togoland in Africa. With the surrender of Fort Amsterdam in 1664, England gained control of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, renaming it New York. At the end of the 14th century the colony of Samastri was established in the Black Sea and Cyprus was granted to the Republic. In the same century the Republic conquered many settlements in Crimea, where the Genoese colony of Caffa was established. As the largest remaining colony of the United Kingdom, the loss of Hong Kong effectively represented the end of the British Empire. The Latin name Caesarea was also applied to the colony of New Jersey as Nova Caesarea. The British gained the thriving colony of New Netherland, and renamed it New York. However, these islands provide breeding grounds for many important seabird species including the world's largest colony of northern gannets. The colony of New Amsterdam was centered at the site which would eventually become Lower Manhattan. From 1763 to 1784, the island was administratively part of the colony of Nova Scotia and was governed from Halifax. The colony of Cape Breton Island had its capital at Sydney on its namesake harbour fronting on Spanish Bay and the Cabot Strait. In 1820, the colony of Cape Breton Island was merged for the second time with Nova Scotia. Britain gained the German colony of Tanganyika and part of Togoland in Africa, while its dominions added other colonies. Show More Sentences The colony of New Sweden introduced Lutheranism to America in the form of some of the continent's oldest European churches. The Dutch colony of New Netherland was taken over by the British and renamed New York. Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 as a proprietary colony of Quaker William Penn. The settlers came mainly from the English colony of Barbados and brought African slaves with them. One of the loch's islands, Inchconnachan, is home to a colony of wallabies. The specific bassanus is from the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth, which holds the world's largest colony of northern gannets. A colony of beavers is also established in a large enclosure at Bamff, Perthshire. This colony is notable because it is the furthest inland colony of kittiwakes in the world. As a result, the Portuguese army and navy were involved in armed conflict in its colony of Portuguese India against the Indian Armed Forces. In 2015, it was revealed that the tsunami waves may have reached the coast of Brazil, then a colony of Portugal. A resident colony of quarrymen did not pause in the slightest but went on dismantling buildings. In the 6th century BC, Greek settlers established the colony of Tyras, along the Black Sea coast and traded with the locals. A man of Umbrian origins, he was born in Italica, a colony of Italian settlers in Hispania. This northern protectorate was just opposite the British colony of Aden on the Arabian Peninsula. Nearly all Portuguese settlers came to the country from the former Portuguese colony of Angola. Paraguay was a peripheral colony of the Spanish Empire, with few urban centers and settlers. At the Lancaster Conference of 1965, it became clear that Britain wanted to relieve itself of the colony of Mauritius. At the end of the 19th century, the Kingdom of Italy created a modern port in Massawa for their newly acquired colony of Eritrea. The first group of Franciscans arrived in Veracruz in 1524, walking barefoot to the capital of the Spanish colony of New Spain. Veracruz became the principal and often only port to export and import goods between the colony of New Spain and Spain itself. Show More Sentences New Amsterdam and the colony of New Netherland were renamed New York, after the Duke of York. The name of Canada has been in use since the founding of the French colony of Canada in the 16th century. Many settled in the new free colony of Victoria, to the dismay of the free settlers in towns such as Melbourne. In 1619 twenty Africans were brought to the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia. The Bamboccianti were a colony of Dutch artists who introduced the genre scene to Italy. There is some evidence to suggest that the city was a colony of one of the cities of the center of Mexico. The earliest form of Australian English was spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales. It was brought by British, German, and other settlers to the British colony of British Honduras. Singapore joined the Federation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963, and thus ceased to be a colony of the British empire. Free men of color had been members of the militia for decades under both Spanish and French control of the colony of Louisiana. For over a century, Hong Kong was a colony of the British Empire. At Birsay, a little island off Mainland, Orkney, there's a small sea stack just off the shore which sometimes has a colony of Arctic terns. A number of stick insects and cave crickets also died, along with a colony of about 500,000 leaf-cutting ants. Leaving the colony of Adelie, Gentoo, King and Rockhopper penguins behind, there is plenty more to enjoy at SeaWorld. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland unveiled the bid to help build the home for the colony of kings, rockhoppers and gentoos. In January 2015, the organizers of the exhibition found out that a colony of endangered sand lizards were living right above Lenin's buried head. An eagle-eyed foreman was first to spot the exotic birds flying among the site's colony of nesting sand martins. For example, you can watch birds at a birdfeeder, squirrels in the park, or a colony of ants. It also supports the world's largest colony of rare rocky shoals spider lilies. In west Africa a combined British and French force had fired the first shots of the war in attacking the German colony of Togoland. Show More Sentences And a colony of bacteria thrived on the skin of my legs and we had to squeeze chigger worms out of our toes where they laid their eggs. They had been on the island since 1814, when the island Malta became a crown colony of the British empire. His picture, entitled Mother's Little Headful, was captured while camping near a nesting colony of gharials on the banks of the Chambal River. It looks like a jellyfish but is a closely-related hydroid, and each 'animal' is in fact made up of a colony of individuals. A colony of 100 Egyptian fruit bats have become fully fledged residents of the purpose-built bat forest enclosure at the attraction. When it was still our former colony of Rhodesia, the country was known as the breadbasket of Africa exporting wheat and corn to its neighbours and beyond. Vermiculture on a small scale is another way to bring the children into seeing how food waste can feed a small colony of worms, which provide excellent fertilizer for gardens. Indeed, France should recall its own troubles in dealing with the Viet Minh in its former colony of Vietnam and in dealing with the independence movement in Algeria. A chocolate-brown colony of brain coral, nearly 8 inches wide, has grown on the stony surface, its distinctive fleshy, serpentine folds nearly covering the rock. Predation by Kelp Gulls Larus dominicanus at a mixed-species colony of Royal Terns Sterna maxima and Cayenne Terns Sterna eurygnatha in Patagonia. Bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage demonstrated one colony of fungal organisms from the genus Paecilomyces, and a regimen of Augmentin and voriconazole was initiated. In 1681, the colony of Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn. Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of aliens who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them? In which ocean is the former French penal colony of Devil's Island? I saw two Toco Toucan raids destroying a colony of 16 nests, park rangers witnessed similar cases, and several predation sequences were filmed by the NHK documentalists. During the 17th century, Dutch trading posts established for the trade of pelts from the Lenape, Iroquois, and other tribes were founded in the colony of New Netherland. The discovery of a colony of pipistrelle bats was made by volunteers for the charity Sustrans to assess the wildlife along the popular cycle and walking route. The Dutch soon also settled New Amsterdam and parts of the Hudson Valley, establishing the multicultural colony of New Netherland, a center of trade and immigration. The earliest civil and criminal courts established from the beginnings of the colony of New South Wales were rudimentary, adaptive and military in character. Show More Sentences In 1788 the colony of New South Wales of Australia was founded. With the introduction of Protestantism in 1536, the archbishopric in Trondheim was dissolved, and Norway lost its independence, and effectually became a colony of Denmark. At that time there was also a colony of Dubrovnik in Fes in Morocco. In 1700 several hundred French Huguenots migrated from England to the colony of Virginia, where the English Crown had promised them land grants in Lower Norfolk County. In 1740, the town was again besieged, this time by the governor of the British colony of Georgia, General James Oglethorpe, who was also unable to take the fort. There was also a group of settlers who came from the colony of Bermuda. In the German colony of Shonfeld, Romas were burned in farms. In 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip assumed the position of Governor of the new British colony of New South Wales which according to his commission included New Zealand. For these new settlers in the colony of Camulodunum drove people out of their houses, ejected them from their farms, called them captives and slaves. Quarter Sessions were also held in the colony of New South Wales. In 1822 the ACS established the colony of Liberia in West Africa. Tobacco later became a cash crop, with the work of John Rolfe and others, for export and the sustaining economic driver of Virginia and the neighboring colony of Maryland. The Gauls were prosperous enough by the 2nd century that the powerful Greek colony of Massilia had to appeal to the Roman Republic for defense against them. Inside Moria, they learn of the fate of Balin and his colony of Dwarves. Malta was a colony of the British Crown for 200 years, and there exist a variety of clubs and organisations bearing the name of royal personalities. China and the British colony of Hong Kong, which followed suit in this regard in September 1935, would be the last to abandon the silver standard. A colony of kittiwakes living in Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead in the north east of England has made homes on both the Tyne Bridge and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682, and attracted an influx of British Quakers with his policies of religious liberty and freehold ownership. After the partitioning of the British colony of Nova Scotia in 1784 New Brunswick was originally named New Ireland with the capital to be in Saint John. Effective European occupation of a small part of the territory began in 1769, when the city of Dili was founded and the colony of Portuguese Timor declared. Show More Sentences On January 1, 1890, Eritrea officially became a colony of Italy. They fled first to Holland, and then later to America, to establish the English colony of Massachusetts in New England, which later became one of the original United States. This work is unique in that it underplays the transition to being a colony of Great Britain and focuses more on the economic activities of peasants, artisans, and merchants. If you like Land's End and John O'Groats, you will love Unst, Britain's most northernly inhabited island and at Hermaness you can peer at a 100, 000-strong colony of seabirds. There's the gravedigging sexton beetle, life and death on the Skerries for a colony of tern chicks, the shenanigans of some frisky deer and some myth-busting about spiders. The French colony of La Louisiane struggled for decades to survive. Examples from Classical Literature In another part of the wood was a nesting colony of the black kite, several of which soared high overhead. Such was the man of mark, who in 1636, with a colony of friends, made a settlement on the fertile meadows of the Indian Agawam. Fig. 34 represents, after Allman, a colony of bougainvillea fruticosa of the natural size. Yet if she did, he was sure that it would have been impossible not to use them in defense of the colony of Cathay. The Athenians resolved to attempt the recovery of the colony of Miltiades in the chersonese. It is called claddagh, and consists of a colony of fishermen numbering with their families some five or six thousand. He had had the fever in a secret colony of thirty lepers on one of the Hawaiian Islands. A very promising colony of them seems to have sprung up in my Scotch broom bushes. He learned the importance in starting a colony of having a carefully and maturely considered system of government. The colony of Eritrea has always been supplied by overprinting the Italian stamps. It was a colony of Miletus, and was the most important Greek city north of the Euxine. So I took my son and came here with other voyagers to your colony of New Amsterdam. The colony of Gracchus appears to have been neglected, and the town was not built. On the 1st of January 1817, the colony of Senegal was surrendered to the French. The multicellular organism was a colony of unicellular organisms, and its life was a sum of the lives of its constituent elements. Examine a colony of vorticella in a watch-glass of water or in a drop of water on a glass slide under the microscope. A small colony of social wasps built their comb under the refectory table of the village Mission-house. The islanders, while employed in erecting this tenement, reminded me of a colony of beavers at work. There was a colony of rooks in the great elms, and they filled the air with melancholy cries. The first is called the polypidom, the second is the colony of polyps. Show More Sentences Should I find down there a whole colony of exiles who, weary of the miseries of this earth, had sought and found independence in the deep ocean? At Wales' only colony of Sandwich Terns, protected by North Wales Wildlife Trust wardens at Cemlyn Bay, 2,650 pairs fledged 1,200 young. This little colony of the Banat belonged of course to the Huguenot exodus. Ibycus was a native of Rhegium, a colony of mixed Ionians and Dorians. My friend has now a whole colony of sparrows, and his flies and spiders are almost obliterated. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had taken possession of that region many years before, and called it New Netherlands. Further east is the ancient Greek colony of Cyrene, whose ruins are today a UNESCO World Heritage Site, one of several in the country. Every house here had a colony of the porcine family in its yard. Adjoining the latter was a colony of quiet and inoffensive Beavers. The first to pop out was a colony of red ants from a tiny anthill just inches away from where I was glued. The crown colony of Hongkong still continues to do an active trade. On one of these islands a small colony of herons were nesting. Naucratis was a colony of Greeks, settled in Egypt for purposes of trade. Gander at the gannets Bass Rock in East Lothian has the largest colony of Northern gannets in the world. The subcontinent remained a colony of the British Empire from 1858-1947, so the Gregorian calendar was introduced to the subcontinent around the mid-19th century. I assure you that I little thought when I left my professional chair in London that it was for the purpose of heading a raid of savages upon a colony of anthropoid apes. In racing across an open space I ran full tilt upon a colony of snakes. Find more words! 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