How to Use industrial in a Sentence

industrial

1 of 2 adjective
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  • There are thousands of industrial uses for plastic.
  • It would be programmed by punch cards, like the industrial looms of the time.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • In Avdiivka, a hot spot in the battle for the city is an industrial zone to the east.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The fires of 2023 in Canada produced three times our industrial emissions, and that is just way off the charts.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Choose from the aged antique brass finish or opt for an industrial look with the silvery-bronze finish.
    — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Aug. 2023
  • This year’s winner was a sauna in the sky, equipped with a wood-burning stove lifted 50 feet in the air by an industrial crane while each team sweated inside.
    — Lisa Lucas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Three of the hubs are designated for the industrial belt stretching from Appalachia through the Midwest.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But this shelving unit is fairly inexpensive and the wooden shelves with the steel frame give it an on-trend industrial feel.
    — Kat Romero, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
  • When done at an industrial scale, the amount of energy needed to generate that much heat makes the process emit more carbon—and cost more money.
    — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2023
  • The groups also expressed concerns about the effects of industrial development and fracking in the area.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2023
  • Tesla’s industrial partner in the project, Panasonic, has already pulled out of the site, eliminating hundreds of jobs in the process.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • So the hair is a tribute to the industrial city of Manchester, and is such a wonderfully, punky contrast to Kristen Stewart's Chanel costume in black-and-white.
    — Anna Bader, Glamour, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Kyiv has wrestled with two problems, on and off, for decades: defense corruption and a struggling industrial base.
    — Daniel Block, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The first run includes a curved aluminum lamp meant to look like a faucet by the industrial designer Blanca Codina.
    — John Wogan Laura Bannister Tariro Mzezewa Elissa Suh Dana Covit Jameson Montgomery, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Her shop, one of the oldest in the neighborhood, served as a time capsule of a bygone era as Navy Yard transformed from a run-down, industrial eyesore to one of the most modern and expensive parts of the District.
    — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Cedros Avenue, now the Cedros Design District with chic shops and restaurants, was once the city’s industrial center.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • With a workforce of about 830, A.O. Reed specializes in large commercial and industrial projects.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Wooden pallet yards are common along the 10 Freeway in the industrial center near downtown.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • North Texas is the country’s top industrial building market with more than 60 million square feet of construction.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Like many suburbs outside large industrial cities, Shaker Heights started out as the front line of segregation in the Cleveland area.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2023
  • This can begin the process of making the American public–especially the younger car buyers of the future– less ready to hate the auto industrial complex.
    — Adam Hanft, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Many office tenants look for those sorts of amenities, Krumwiede said, which caused the company to start including those in its industrial buildings as well.
    — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2023
  • Enormous slicks seen in aerial footage stretch across the river from the city’s port and industrial facilities, demonstrating the scale of the Dnieper’s new pollution problem.
    — Lori Hinnant, Sam McNeil, Illia Novikov, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
  • In a key flashback, Rana—acting on Shakti’s orders—clears out Kid’s forest-adjacent village so the land can be used for industrial growth.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Left out of most conversations about industrial policy is the question of whether people are having a nice time.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The restaurant’s look has been altered a bit, with its original industrial feel softened by wood details, dark leather and gold finishes.
    — Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Most of it goes toward industrial operations and for cooling systems, but part of it is mixed into the city-state’s drinking water.
    — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The industrial company slightly narrowed its outlook for the year.
    — Dean Seal, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
  • At the same time, the prohibition of Indigenous cultural burns and the effects of industrial logging and aggressive fire suppression have made much of the state’s forests more flammable.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
  • In order to keep the temperature inside of the blanket (and therefore give you a more consistent heat) this sauna blanket has industrial grade zippers.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2023
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industrial

2 of 2 noun
  • The stock was the best performer in the Dow industrials and the second best in the S&P 500 for the day.
    — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Futures tied to the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials hugged the flatline.
    — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Boeing is down about 8.9% on Monday, the worst performer in the Dow industrials.
    — Hannah Miao, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The industrials grinds and thumps were muted, too slick even by New Order's standards, and the haunting builds of the keys sanitized.
    — Kevin Williams, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Among today's stock-market victims: the Dow industrials, which had their worst day since March.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The Dow's industrials were hit the hardest, led downward by 3M and Caterpillar, which dropped more than 6.5 percent.
    — Thomas Heath, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The Dow’s industrials were hit the hardest, led downward by 3M and Caterpillar, which dropped more than 6.5 percent.
    — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Shares of the telecom company rose more than 8% in early trading and were the best performers in the Dow industrials index.
    — Denny Jacob, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
  • If the Nasdaq and Dow industrials end the week lower, that would halt an impressive run of eight consecutive weeks of gains.
    — Will Horner, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
  • The Dow industrials rose, outperforming the Nasdaq by its widest one-day margin since March 2021.
    — WSJ, 20 July 2023
  • Apple's stock was recently up about 2%, making it among the best performers of the Dow industrials.
    — David Marino-Nachison, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The Dow industrials were also down, but the Nasdaq composite was up slightly.
    — Author: Stan Choe, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Stocks finished Wednesday mixed, with the S&P 500 extending its winning streak to eight sessions and the Dow industrials losing some ground.
    — WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Technology, health care and industrials stocks accounted for much of the gain.
    — Paul Wiseman, Houston Chronicle, 27 Dec. 2017
  • Last year, stocks plunged as investors feared that rising interest rates and trade tensions could hurt company profits; the Dow industrials fell 831 points, the worst loss for the index in eight months.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • That is because jobs in cyclical sectors like industrials and energy tend to employ more men than women, and are often the first to dwindle in a downturn.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 16 Jan. 2020
  • All major sectors were hit, with industrials, financial services and health care bleeding the most.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The Dow industrials and Nasdaq Composite are on track for their longest weekly winning streaks since 2019.
    — Hannah Miao, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023
  • That leaves a lot of room for work in non-Equity stage productions, as well as film, television, commercials and industrials.
    — Kelundra Smith, New York Times, 4 May 2018
  • Then a month ago, shares of a wider swath of companies including utilities, industrials and consumer goods powered gains.
    — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2023
  • In contrast to his industrial-leaning surroundings at The Row, Jean-Pascal is not a minimalist.
    — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The ear-splitting warblings are backed by arrangements varying from heavy industrial to thumping hardcore electronica that would wake the dead.
    — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Because of the wide array of color choices, there is an option for every interior style from cottagecore to modern industrial.
    — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Only when bond yields started to rise again in 1996 did consumer discretionary, industrials and other stocks tied to the economic cycle outperform.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 13 June 2019
  • Together, the two companies contributed roughly 135 points to the Dow industrials on Tuesday.
    — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The top three sectors in March and April were materials, consumer discretionary (nonessential goods and services, like cars and entertainment), and industrials.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 2 May 2023
  • Jeff Windau, industrials analyst for Edward Jones, said the 400 planes that Boeing has built but cannot deliver were likely a major factor in the decision to halt production.
    — Tom Krisher, The Denver Post, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Cyclical sectors – tech, industrials, and financials – paced the advance.
    — Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • His firm is overweight in cyclical sectors such as industrials and materials.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 22 June 2023
  • The index’s technology sector is among the best performers this year, with a 12% climb, trailing only industrials, energy and real-estate stocks.
    — Corrie Driebusch, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019

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