FACTORY in a Sentence

Learn FACTORY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
154 example sentences for FACTORY, such as:
1. Their factory had to close down for good.
2. It bumped through the factory belt, gained speed.
3. I must begin by telling you about the factory itself.
4. They lodged a compensation claim against the factory.
5. The site for the new factory has not been decided yet.
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 Meanings and Examples of FACTORY
factory
 n.  a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
Classic Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
1  Why, she'd never even seen a factory, or known anyone who had seen a factory.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  It bumped through the factory belt, gained speed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  Kennicott believed in it; demanded that she say patriotic things about the White Way and the new factory.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  The husband, in Chicago, was working in a furniture factory for modest wages, and when he met his family at the station he was rather crushed by the size of it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
5  One could go to the cigar factory and chat with the old German who raised canaries for sale, and look at his stuffed birds.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
6  She works in a canning factory, and all day long she handles cans of beef that weigh fourteen pounds.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  There was a barrel factory, and a boiler-repair shop.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  There was a building to which the grease was piped, and made into soap and lard; and then there was a factory for making lard cans, and another for making soap boxes.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  She had taken the place of an Irishwoman who had been working in that factory ever since any one could remember.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  But only ten days after she had joined, Marija's canning factory closed down, and that blow quite staggered them.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
11  Marija was in despair, for there was still no word about the reopening of the canning factory, and her savings were almost entirely gone.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  In the late spring the canning factory started up again, and so once more Marija was heard to sing, and the love-music of Tamoszius took on a less melancholy tone.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  However that might be, the known facts were that a few weeks before the factory closed, Marija had been cheated out of her pay for three hundred cans.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  She was in another canning factory, and her work was to trim the meat of those diseased cattle that Jurgis had been told about not long before.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
15  With one member trimming beef in a cannery, and another working in a sausage factory, the family had a first-hand knowledge of the great majority of Packingtown swindles.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
Example Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
1  They have no reservations about taking factory or manual jobs.
2  Easy access to a railway network weighed heavily with us when we chose a site for the new factory.
3  The union failed to heed warnings that strike action would lead to the closure of the factory.
4  The mass movement for technical innovation is vigorously forging ahead in the factory.
5  The new factory could put the town back at the forefront of steelmaking.
6  Valuable information was sent back regarding troop movements, flying-bomb factory and assembly areas, and supply dumps.
7  The press conference was followed by a walkabout and a factory visit.
8  People who work with furnaces in a steel factory need to wear protective clothing.
9  The factory churns out thousands of pairs of these shoes every week.
10  I must begin by telling you about the factory itself.
11  When the villagers were asked if they wanted the factory to be built, the answer was a resounding yes.
12  The site for the new factory has not been decided yet.
13  They lodged a compensation claim against the factory.
14  Their factory had to close down for good.
15  Then came the bombshell: the factory was to close down.