Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "permanent settlement"

  • Poutrincourt seems to have been the one most anxious to make a permanent settlement here.

  • They saw fine opportunities for fur-trading as well as for a permanent settlement.

  • Delaware ad- * I have noticed the efforts of Smith to establish a permanent settlement at Powhatan, near Richmond.

  • He was associated with Godyn, Bloemart, and Van Rensselaer, wealthy Dutch patroons, establishing a permanent settlement on the Delaware for the purpose of cultivating tobacco and grain, and prosecuting the whale and seal fishing.

  • Up its broad channel they sailed about fifty miles, and there, upon a charming peninsula, an island at high tide, they determined to build a town and plant a permanent settlement.

  • Lower Bengal and a few adjoining districts of the United Provinces and of Madras have a permanent settlement, i.

  • Accordingly, Cornwallis took out with him in 1787 instructions to introduce a permanent settlement.

  • Waddell of North Carolina, among the most respectable inhabitants of the State, and on their way to Louisiana with a view to a permanent settlement in that State.

  • The slow and difficult process was beginning which was to make Newfoundland a permanent settlement instead of the occasional resort of migratory fishermen.

  • A feeling of proprietorship soon sprang from uninterrupted user, and signs of jealousy appeared of any attempt at permanent settlement.

  • But a strong and influential class in England was interested in harassing the settlers, in depreciating the resources of the island, and in throwing every obstacle in the way of permanent settlement.

  • Thus prepared for a permanent settlement, they arrived in July at Roanoke, where they received the melancholy intelligence of the loss of their countrymen who had been left there by Sir Richard Grenville.

  • The first indications of a permanent settlement in their country, seem to have excited the jealousy of the natives.

  • It is evident that Champlain was still thinking of making Montreal a permanent settlement.

  • The failure of Raleigh's colonies to establish a permanent settlement in the New World discouraged the English for many years from making any further attempts to settle America.

  • Of none of these, however, can any accurate account be given, their date and location having long been forgotten; and not until 1661 is there any authenticated record of a permanent settlement in North Carolina.

  • This in answer to the question, what would be the result of a permanent settlement?

  • The meeting was unanimously in favour of a permanent settlement as the only solution of the agricultural difficulty, and as, by itself, a sufficient remedy.

  • He is in favour of a permanent settlement everywhere at one-sixteenth of the net produce.

  • He agreed with me about the necessity of a permanent settlement everywhere.

  • Rude cabins were pitched and lived in at the southern end of the island but these did not constitute a permanent settlement; they were a mere trading-post.

  • The aim of Menendez was to begin a permanent settlement in Florida.

  • Cecil Calvert at once organized a company of more than two hundred men, who effected a permanent settlement at St. Mary's, which for sixty years was the capital of the colony of Maryland, Annapolis being afterward chosen.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "permanent settlement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    church and; family names; like surface; mere variety; more prudent; nor yet; olive brown; permanent crops; permanent cure; permanent home; permanent institution; permanent magnet; permanent peace; permanent residence; permanent resident; permanent status; permanent value; permanent water; private marriage; several people; should prove; single rank; slightly arched; upon whom; vast concourse; when dying