How to Use industrious in a Sentence

industrious

adjective

• He is an industrious worker.
• Then, throw it deep into the garbage so that no industrious or nosey pets can get to it.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2025
• The end of the month could bring even more clever ideas to boost your income, so get industrious.
  — Nina Kahn, StyleCaster, 28 Apr. 2025
• Perhaps a meal had been in the making by an industrious housewife.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• Got pucks through and seemed to want to be more active and industrious with the puck this year as well which was positive.
  — Scott Wheeler, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
• John was an industrious man and was known to be able to repair, refurbish, and build anything.
  — courant.com, 25 July 2019
• But this is a business where, even before the pandemic, teams learned to be industrious to stay in the black.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 June 2021
• That's because industrious Virgo is born at the time of the year when the harvest comes out.
  — Mairi Beautyman, ELLE Decor, 4 Jan. 2016
• He was known as an industrious worker who'd have a smile on his face and a cheerful air about him, Bormann said.
  — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2020
• For the high-income, success also owes to our (better, more industrious) selves, not to our stars.
  — Jeff Fuhrer, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
• None is quite as industrious of a ball-winner as Adams, but each can take a shift to ease the toll on Adams’ legs.
  — Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
• In these moments, Karen was industrious and elated, keen to rebuild her life.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
• Give cross-city hiking a try on any of these urban trails that range from industrious day hikes to thru-hiking adventures.
  — Miles Howard, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2024
• The pop of gloves and laughter of children rang through the field for a while — until a few industrious boys and girls got their manos on bolígrafos.
  — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
• Thanks to the efforts of these industrious volunteers, fresh corn is in abundance throughout area food banks.
  — Melissa Whatley, baltimoresun.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Leroy Sané was industrious in the first half, but his inability to shoot with both feet hurt him and his team overall.
  — Manuel Veth, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
• And no one took advantage of that path more than the ever industrious Charles Young.
  — Nneka M. Okona, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 June 2020
• Any number of reasons could explain the absence, like the new pond that formed along the stream, thanks to an industrious group of local beavers.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022
• But the industrious Veblens—with the help of the odd bank loan—soon established themselves.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2021
• Your industrious spirit gives you a big assist in putting the finishing touches on projects and chores before time runs out.
  — Magi Helena, oregonlive, 9 Jan. 2020
• These bakers brought industrious spirits and a taste of Afghanistan with them to India.
  — Shefali Rafiq, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2022
• There must still be many ways for the industrious viewer to track down the originals, legally or otherwise.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• While this is normally a grounding and industrious time, this year’s is happening in the thick of eclipse season.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
• From that first Twitter bot sprung a slew of others, all thanks to a pack of industrious sneakerheads who knew their way around a bit of code.
  — Scott Christian, Esquire, 26 May 2017
• Soon we were both absorbed in the process — two middle-aged people constructing our land art like industrious toddlers.
  — Jancee Dunn, New York Times, 25 June 2026
• Leckie says ants are industrious and dynamic builders.
  — NPR, 21 Oct. 2025
• Sean has always been an industrious, goal oriented, over achiever.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2025
• Sean has always been an industrious, goal oriented, over achiever.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2025
• This is yet another way to truly stand with the brave and industrious Ukrainian people and our allies around the world.
  — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2022
• The industrious birds will create acorn storage lockers out of utility poles, fence posts, and even the sides of wooden buildings.
  — Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Apr. 2018