FACTORIES in a Sentence

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Valuable information was sent back regarding troop movements, flying-bomb factory and assembly areas, and supply dumps.

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 Meanings and Examples of FACTORIES
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factory
 n.  building in which goods are manufactured
Classic Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
1  The thousands of immigrants who'd be glad to fight for the Yankees for food and a few dollars, the factories, the foundries, the shipyards, the iron and coal mines--all the things we haven't got.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Before the war there had been few cotton factories, woolen mills, arsenals and machine shops south of Maryland--a fact of which all Southerners were proud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  Soot from the newly erected factories fell in showers on the white houses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  They went off to city kitchens, or to city shops and factories, that they might be free and even human after hours.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  The Commercial Club decided that Gopher Prairie was not only a wheat-center but also the perfect site for factories, summer cottages, and state institutions.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  She learned, in brief, that this was the one Logical Location for factories and wholesale houses.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  Just as much to her kicking as there was to Jim Blausser's gassing about factories.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  For even so it is in all material factories.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.
9  He was badly advised and went to work on furs during a strike, when the factories were offering big wages.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
10  The big packers did not turn their hands off and close down, like the canning factories; but they began to run for shorter and shorter hours.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
11  He began the long, weary round of factories and warehouses, tramping all day, from one end of the city to the other, finding everywhere from ten to a hundred men ahead of him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
12  He decided that he would first try to get work, and so he put in the rest of the day wandering here and there among factories and warehouses without success.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
13  They have set up 'offices' and factories and schools and 'commissions,' and the devil knows what else besides.'
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
14  Another reason why I started those factories," continued Kostanzhoglo, "is that they might give employment to many peasants who would otherwise have starved.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
15  Besides this the chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
16  China's economic growth has been fuelled by investment in new factories and other commercial premises, many of them producing low-cost goods.
17  Lots of closing of retail stores and factories only means more declines in freight demand.
18  China's rapid economic growth in recent years has to a large extent been fuelled by business investment in new factories and other commercial premises, many of them producing low-cost manufactured goods.
19  The encroachment of the factories upon the neighborhood lowered the value of the real estate.
20  They have no reservations about taking factory or manual jobs.
21  Easy access to a railway network weighed heavily with us when we chose a site for the new factory.
22  The union failed to heed warnings that strike action would lead to the closure of the factory.
23  The mass movement for technical innovation is vigorously forging ahead in the factory.
24  The new factory could put the town back at the forefront of steelmaking.
25  Valuable information was sent back regarding troop movements, flying-bomb factory and assembly areas, and supply dumps.
26  The press conference was followed by a walkabout and a factory visit.
27  People who work with furnaces in a steel factory need to wear protective clothing.
28  The factory churns out thousands of pairs of these shoes every week.
29  I must begin by telling you about the factory itself.
30  When the villagers were asked if they wanted the factory to be built, the answer was a resounding yes.