At Iwahig, in Palawan, the Spaniards attempted to conduct a penal colony.
I should never have beheld the light of day, neither would you have passed some eighteen or nineteen years of your life in a penal colony.
I even longed for the hour of my departure to arrive, that I might for ever quit a country where I had played so vile a part, and to some extent retrieve my character in a penal colony.
This applies equally to the case of a penal colony.
To promote their reform, and to bring them to that prosperity which should make this reform something more than mere idle profession--these, as he thought, were among the first of his duties as the governor of a penal colony.
Redpath passed away into the outer darkness of a penal colony, where he lived many years.
But he found himself doomed to encounter all the responsibilities of ordinary legislation and government, with difficulties peculiar to a penal colony.
Van Diemen's Land was always a penal colony, and he saw no reason that it should be otherwise.
Cape of Good Hope; Agitation against making it a Penal Colony.
The Colonial-office had long projected making the Cape a penal colony, and it was supposed that political convicts would not be objected to.
It will surprise most of those who know the place and probably some of the residents themselves that it is still a penal colony legally, because the penal laws were never repealed.
As is well known, Punta Arenas started out in life as a penal colony.
She established a penal colony at once in Port Famine, a few miles from here.
Governing a penal colony seems to have had an unhealthy influence upon the sailor governors; Phillip only escaped it.
There was a period in which Chili maintained a penal colony here, but the convicts mutinied, and massacred the officers who had charge of them.
No attempt has been made since that time to reestablish a penal colony on this island.
But the picture of the peculiar class by which a penal colony is distinguished from all others will not be complete without a darker shade of colouring than those upon which we have been gazing.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penal colony" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
