FACTORIES in a Sentence

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154 example sentences for FACTORIES, such as:
1. Half these factories now stand idle.
2. For even so it is in all material factories.
3. We should stop factories from producing harmful gases.
4. The factories have adopted the newest modern technology.
5. These factories are releasing toxic gases into the atmosphere.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FACTORIES
factory
 n.  a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
Classic Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
1  The thousands of immigrants who'd be glad to fight for the Yankees for food and a few dollars, the factories, the foundries, the shipyards, the iron and coal mines--all the things we haven't got.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Before the war there had been few cotton factories, woolen mills, arsenals and machine shops south of Maryland--a fact of which all Southerners were proud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  Soot from the newly erected factories fell in showers on the white houses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  They went off to city kitchens, or to city shops and factories, that they might be free and even human after hours.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  The Commercial Club decided that Gopher Prairie was not only a wheat-center but also the perfect site for factories, summer cottages, and state institutions.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  She learned, in brief, that this was the one Logical Location for factories and wholesale houses.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  Just as much to her kicking as there was to Jim Blausser's gassing about factories.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  For even so it is in all material factories.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.
9  He was badly advised and went to work on furs during a strike, when the factories were offering big wages.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
10  The big packers did not turn their hands off and close down, like the canning factories; but they began to run for shorter and shorter hours.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
11  He began the long, weary round of factories and warehouses, tramping all day, from one end of the city to the other, finding everywhere from ten to a hundred men ahead of him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
12  He decided that he would first try to get work, and so he put in the rest of the day wandering here and there among factories and warehouses without success.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
13  They have set up 'offices' and factories and schools and 'commissions,' and the devil knows what else besides.'
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
14  Another reason why I started those factories," continued Kostanzhoglo, "is that they might give employment to many peasants who would otherwise have starved.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
15  Besides this the chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
1  The factories are staying open all weekend to try to meet the consumer demand for this product.
2  Three thousand factories and defense facilities are contaminated by radiation.
3  Some factories have cut out the middleman and sell their products directly to customers.
4  People who toiled in dim, dank factories were too exhausted to enjoy their family life.
5  A Swiss company offers to help environmental investors by sending teams round factories to ascertain their greenness.
6  These factories have displaced tourism as the country's largest source of foreign exchange.
7  Half these factories now stand idle.
8  These factories are releasing toxic gases into the atmosphere.
9  Waste products from factories can be made into road - building material.
10  We look towards the amalgamation of some of the neighborhood factories.
11  The factories no longer relied upon a mechanic to put together looms within the plant.
12  Production has halted at all of the company's factories because of the pay dispute.
13  The water rate is the payment in Britain for water when it is supplied to houses and factories and so forth.
14  We should stop factories from producing harmful gases.
15  The factories have adopted the newest modern technology.