How to Use cottage industry in a Sentence

cottage industry

noun

• There was a cottage industry and these little blogs that would make these fake news stories.
  — NBC News, 1 Jan. 2023
• That firm created a cottage industry that thrives to this day.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 16 May 2018
• If that were to drop on top of this, a lot of these little cottage industries could wind up in a death spiral.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
• Yet the search for returnees has spurred a thriving cottage industry.
  — David Ramli, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2018
• Ranking the world’s health care is something of a cottage industry.
  — David Oshinsky, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2020
• And a cottage industry of podcasts, as well as fan and gossip accounts have sprung up to serve them.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
• The last two constitute a cottage industry in themselves, such is the gush of books about them.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
• The secret to success is hard work—or so says the cottage industry made by a million self-help books.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2022
• The trend has spurred a cottage industry of retailers catering to the ask.
  — Andrew Zucker, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• This is the fruit of a new cottage industry of anti-anti-racist entrepreneurs.
  — Max B. Sawicky, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2021
• Meanwhile, the prevalence of smart phones has spawned a parking cottage industry in the last few years.
  — Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 5 Nov. 2017
• Now, Cahn says, this cottage industry is keen to find a way into classrooms.
  — Will Knight, Wired, 5 June 2020
• Kiper and McShay make a year-round cottage industry of their mock drafts.
  — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 25 Apr. 2018
• In fact, a whole cottage industry has erupted with goods for weddings that feel on-brand to a couple’s theme and style.
  — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 2 June 2021
• There will always be a cottage industry and the rage industry.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 14 May 2018
• The pandemic has caused an entire cottage industry to spring up around the concept of the home gym.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• The style has sold out tens of times on Le Specs’s site and spawned a cottage industry of knockoffs.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 5 June 2018
• The race to integrate patient data has spawned a cottage industry of its own.
  — Reza Amin, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• There's even a cottage industry for those who might be figuring out how to announce their own bundles of joy to the world.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
• On the one hand, this huge cottage industry was how Nizar found out about the Spinosaurus fossil in the first place.
  — National Geographic, 24 Nov. 2020
• That has led to a cottage industry of social-media entrepreneurs seeking to please.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• There is an entire cottage industry built around the public's hunger for news about famous people.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 3 Feb. 2026
• But only one of these three supports a cottage industry of gravedancing, and that’s crypto.
  — Miller Whitehouse-Levine, Fortune, 6 July 2022
• As a result, a cottage industry has sprung up, with hopes of capitalizing on the new law.
  — Peter Kiefer, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Apr. 2020
• Such systems are part of a cottage industry that has formed in recent decades to help clients vet bills submitted by outside lawyers.
  — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026
• There’s a cottage industry where people see this now as a way to garner attention — again, to get those eyeballs.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
• Over the years, Longshore’s art has become something of a cottage industry.
  — John Stanton | Gambit Editor, NOLA.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• The surge in interest has also spawned a cottage industry of entrepreneurs, many of them women.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
• In Barbados, most products made from the fruit are produced for home use or on a cottage industry scale.
  — Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• There was a cottage industry of websites telling people what time the Super Bowl was.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 7 Feb. 2026