FACTORY in a Sentence

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For FACTORY, below is one of 154 sentences:
One could go to the cigar factory and chat with the old German who raised canaries for sale, and look at his stuffed birds.

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 Meanings and Examples of FACTORY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
factory
 n.  building in which goods are manufactured
Classic Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
1  Why, she'd never even seen a factory, or known anyone who had seen a factory.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  It bumped through the factory belt, gained speed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  Kennicott believed in it; demanded that she say patriotic things about the White Way and the new factory.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  The husband, in Chicago, was working in a furniture factory for modest wages, and when he met his family at the station he was rather crushed by the size of it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
5  One could go to the cigar factory and chat with the old German who raised canaries for sale, and look at his stuffed birds.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
6  She works in a canning factory, and all day long she handles cans of beef that weigh fourteen pounds.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  There was a barrel factory, and a boiler-repair shop.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  There was a building to which the grease was piped, and made into soap and lard; and then there was a factory for making lard cans, and another for making soap boxes.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  She had taken the place of an Irishwoman who had been working in that factory ever since any one could remember.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  But only ten days after she had joined, Marija's canning factory closed down, and that blow quite staggered them.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
11  Marija was in despair, for there was still no word about the reopening of the canning factory, and her savings were almost entirely gone.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  In the late spring the canning factory started up again, and so once more Marija was heard to sing, and the love-music of Tamoszius took on a less melancholy tone.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  However that might be, the known facts were that a few weeks before the factory closed, Marija had been cheated out of her pay for three hundred cans.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  She was in another canning factory, and her work was to trim the meat of those diseased cattle that Jurgis had been told about not long before.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
15  With one member trimming beef in a cannery, and another working in a sausage factory, the family had a first-hand knowledge of the great majority of Packingtown swindles.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
Example Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
16  It was a real shock to hear that the factory would have to close.
17  It will be a devastating blow to the local community if the factory closes.
18  She expressed her deep concern about conditions at the factory.
19  Consumer pressure is being put upon the food industry to cut down on factory farming methods.
20  The report is highly critical of safety standards at the factory.
21  Our factory deals directly with its customers.
22  The managing director agreed to receive a deputation from the factory.
23  The pickets persuaded some drivers not to enter the factory.
24  From her bedroom she could hear the factory's extractor fan.
25  Our factory has a hard and fast rule against smoking.
26  Only the shell of the factory was left after the fire had been put out.
27  The factory expands to the foot of the mountain.
28  The chart showed us the global output of a factory.
29  The factory has achieved a steady growth in output.
30  All she did was hang around ogling the men in the factory.