How to Use factory in a Sentence
factory
noun- She got a job in the factory.
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The total number of Boeing unionized factory workers from the Pacific Northwest region who are taking part in the strike.
— Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024 -
But those factories and mines will take years to come on line.
— Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 3 May 2024 -
The factory in West Reading has been there since the early 1960s.
— CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023 -
The Polestar 2 is made in a Volvo Cars factory in China.
— wsj.com, 15 May 2023 -
As the film opens, the local steel factory is shutting down.
— Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023 -
Your fast facts: This store is in a factory building dating back to 1919.
— Katie Toussaint, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024 -
Amherst plans to invest more than $12 million in the factory.
— Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 5 May 2023 -
Each group has different aims for the future of the factory.
— Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 7 May 2024 -
Carl Philip and Sofia were all smiles at their first stop, a Volvo factory in Arvika.
— Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2024 -
Only a scant bit of greenery around the factory remains amongst the sea of panels.
— Jamie Lang, Variety, 23 Apr. 2024 -
The children then request to leave the tour early, only to learn that Charlie has planned to pass the factory onto them.
— EW.com, 10 Apr. 2024 -
In a small upper window of the candy making factory in the walk-through playhouse.
— Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 7 June 2024 -
Hyundai As for the factory line, that doesn't really exist here.
— Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2023 -
The tree factory is also the home of Ernie the Elf, Keebler’s commercial mascot.
— Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023 -
On the surface, working for a place like Sama seemed like a huge step up for young people from the slums, many of whom had family roots in factory work.
— Seyward Darby, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2024 -
In the coming centuries, whole lunar cities could spring up, filled with factories, farms, and even hotels.
— Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024 -
Ford announced last month that a site in Michigan was selected for the factory.
— By Madison Hirneisen | The Center Square , Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2023 -
Tesla has four factories up and running around the world and is due to open another, in Mexico, in 2025.
— Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023 -
Boeing factory workers are starting off the work week on strike.
— Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 16 Sep. 2024 -
But the contrast is especially stark now, when the public’s gloom is so widespread, from the wealthy elite to factory workers.
— Vivian Wang, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023 -
About one-third of factories in China shut down during the pandemic.
— Geoffrey Joyce, The Conversation, 20 July 2023 -
In 2025, the company plans to open a new factory in Richmond to supply the Americas.
— David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2023 -
In addition to the factory price cuts, dealers are starting to wheel and deal on electric car inventory that has sat around on the lot for a few months.
— Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024 -
And so do the factories that manufacture EVs or the components that go into them.
— The Editors, National Review, 13 Apr. 2023 -
The lad and the dad head to the countryside, with the older man’s factory switching to manufacturing the cockpit structures of fighter planes.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2023 -
Soldiers marvel as the guns are unwrapped in the sunlight, with parts glistening with factory oil.
— Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023 -
His father was a manager of a plastics factory, and his mother tended to their home.
— Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024 -
In Chicago, the bus would be met by an associate, named Pablo Vega, who had grown up in a nearby suburb and worked in local factories.
— Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024 -
As the technology becomes more affordable, Divergent aims to replace large-scale in-house manufacturing with a new model where companies focus on design and outsource production to its adaptable factories.
— Harry Booth, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
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