How to Use light industry in a Sentence

light industry

noun

• To attract light industry, the city just created a new industrial park.
  — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
• In certain soaring drone shots, the Gobi’s dry, greige sprawl looks like nothing so much as the surface of another planet, at least until it’s disrupted by snaking manmade infrastructure and drab light industry.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 18 June 2026
• One of those is a request to rezone 35 acres of land from office, research and light industry (ORI) to single-family and low-density multiple family residential use.
  — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2026
• If the Aurora City Council adopts the commission’s recommendation, data centers would only be allowed in general industrial zones, not in limited industrial zones or in office, research and light industry districts.
  — R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
• Meanwhile, under city zoning, housing and creative industries like the Can Can Wonderland mini-golf, bar and arcade on Prior Avenue can find a home within pockets of industrial districts, but even light industry is barred from residential districts.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 9 Apr. 2026