Verb (used with object) : England colonized Australia. ,to colonize laborers in a mining region.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : They went out to Australia to colonize.    From Dictionary.com. 

The Jews ARE the indigenous inhabitants, and as such cannot 'colonise' their own country.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

To 'colonise' those minds as Fred Phillips puts it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

Mussolini during his attempt to colonise Ethiopia.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

For every reason they were eager to colonise the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

These are aphids, sap-suckers that often colonise basil tips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stumped? Insects on my basil and a fig tree suffering an ant attack] Reference

If our Government should determine to colonise any part of New.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827] Reference

Mussolini 70 years ago during his attempt to colonise Ethiopia.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

(Is that the same notion theu used to colonise others in the past).    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Continent not as an incentive to others to colonise the Continent.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

After this, shipload followed shipload from Iceland to colonise Vinland.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

The Arabs were the first to colonise the Comores followed by the French.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

EU's attempts to "re-colonise our country" through unfair trade practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

According to Museveni Europeans had used internal weaknesses to colonise Africans.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

If I do, then I have to accept the islamic right to colonise and occupy my country.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

To colonise a country and to emmigrate to a country are two completely different beasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

And that comment: 'by pressuring Israel to give up yet more land for Hamas/Iran to colonise'.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The electromagnetic fields that give us auroras could send bacteria to colonise other planets.    From Wordnik.com.  [July 22nd, 2006] Reference

Change (MDC) party as a front to re-colonise Zimbabwe in order to plunder the country's minerals.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The result of all the attempts to colonise this side of America south of 41° has been miserable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

When they, the Spaniards, first entered into possession they at once set to work to colonise and clear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

As for Israel I cannot accept the right of the Israelis to slowly colonise and occupy Palestinian lands.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

They would colonise one island after another - it's only strange that some islands have been overlooked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War with the Newts] Reference

Gorregan is perhaps the best spot for seeing kittiwakes, while shags often colonise numerously at Maledgan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

Evelyn and Perrott as they strolled about, imagining that they were great captains sent to colonise the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage Out] Reference

Old Jacob foretold that Joseph would be a fruitful bough, whose branches would run over the wall — that is, colonise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

Leucaena leucocephala and similar fast-growing species can be employed to colonise and enrich the exposed soil sub-strata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Apparently in your view, European Muslims can colonise the Middle East, but not European Jews Your double standards again!.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Tsvangirai did not have the interests of Zimbabweans at heart, adding that they should deny him an opportunity to colonise.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Elizabeth herself, and to Sir Walter Raleigh's efforts to colonise this and other places we owe many of our possessions to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference

Small weeds turned into flowering triffids, couch grass spread out from the paths to colonise the beds, crops went unharvested.    From Wordnik.com.  [How we nearly lost the plot] Reference

Born in 1955, he watches with amazement as the young colonise the web and turn it to their own creative and entrepreneurial ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [An audience with the King of Google] Reference

Instead have their street names should either reflect names of freedom fighters or past leaders, not people who used to colonise them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speech by Pamela Tshwete on the Department of Arts & Culture Budget Vote Debate] Reference

This is an Islamist Trojan horse with an agenda to Islamise and colonise these isles with their retrograde 7th century non-Christian faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference