How to Use factory in a Sentence

factory

noun
  • She got a job in the factory.
  • Not even a swap of the factory wheels and tires.
    Karl Brauer, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Could this have been a factory of some kind?
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 22 Feb. 2026
  • But those factories and mines will take years to come on line.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 3 May 2024
  • There are factories all over the world, and some are good, and some are not.
    Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The factory must stock all three.
    Sean Tucker, AJC.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • That was one of the highlights of my factory tour.
    New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Not one mob but two awaits him as his casket rolls out of the factory gates.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Of course, none of the above factories have all the answers.
    Ethan Karp, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But there were no factory closures, not were any of the brands killed.
    Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The first few days were all about factory visits.
    Essence, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The heart factory might be back open for business.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Weird is the man’s factory setting, and his brand.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • By the factory worker who joins the strike.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The store even offers factory tours to guests.
    Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Diesel engines and factory smoke choked the sky.
    Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • To this end, cost, speed, and throughput at factory scale are yet to be proven.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Men went to work in nearby factories.
    Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Bunched-up towels are a mildew factory.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2026
  • In those cases, the drugs are then banned along with the others at the factory.
    Debbie Cenziper, CNN Money, 20 June 2025
  • Their offense was a ground-ball factory and managed just three hits.
    Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 22 July 2022
  • This factory is more than bricks and mortar and stainless steel.
    Chloe Sorvino, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • In places like warehouses, labs and factories, wheels can make a lot of sense.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026
  • The fire chief's old factory senses had been shot years before and the dog was just a dog.
    Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • His dad worked factory jobs to make ends meet but drank and gambled away most of his paycheck.
    Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
  • The streets are begrimed by factory smoke, fecund with horse dung and lit by lanterns.
    Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • This redesign effort, first launched last year, is more than a meme factory.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This is felt beyond just factories.
    Alex Durante, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • New solar factories have popped up.
    Justin Worland, Time, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Because a factory does not forget all at once.
    Ethan Karp, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

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