A fungus colonizes the damp wood, spreading slowly into the heart of the beam.

Colon arrived at the town hall early to review the election ballots.

When editing the document, she corrected three misplaced colons in the headings.

During the seminar, she pointed out that colonitis, now considered an archaic term, historically described inflammation of the colon.

The colonizer claimed the fertile valley and renamed it after his hometown.

During the autopsy, the pathologist noted that the sigmoid colons were unusually twisted, complicating the examination.

In her manuscript, she carefully adjusted the semi-colons to improve the rhythm of each paragraph.

By the 22nd century, the outpost self-colonized and no longer relied on directives from Earth.

Scholars studied multiple cases of self-colonizations to understand how local elites replicated colonial power structures.

The introduced algae self-colonizes coastal rocks during low tide, forming slippery mats that change the shoreline ecology.