How to Use factory in a Sentence

factory

noun
  • She got a job in the factory.
  • This is the core work that the Wrights did in their Dayton factory.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2022
  • But those factories and mines will take years to come on line.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 3 May 2024
  • Onions the size of chicken eggs were pulled from the ground, as were lentils the color of the sky, the same bright blue as the dye from the garment factory.
    — Akil Kumarasamy, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • The factory in West Reading has been there since the early 1960s.
    — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The Polestar 2 is made in a Volvo Cars factory in China.
    — wsj.com, 15 May 2023
  • As the film opens, the local steel factory is shutting down.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The film follows a lovelorn factory worker looking for romance in all the wrong the places.
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Your fast facts: This store is in a factory building dating back to 1919.
    — Katie Toussaint, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Amherst plans to invest more than $12 million in the factory.
    — Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
  • Each group has different aims for the future of the factory.
    — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 7 May 2024
  • The status of Tesla’s plans for the factory is still unclear.
    — Monica Hunter-Hart, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Carl Philip and Sofia were all smiles at their first stop, a Volvo factory in Arvika.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Only a scant bit of greenery around the factory remains amongst the sea of panels.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Here, the Queen visits an apple packing factory in the area.
    — Janaya Wecker, Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Utah is a tight end factory and still has Dalton Kincaid, but that’s a blow to how the Utes do business on offense.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The children then request to leave the tour early, only to learn that Charlie has planned to pass the factory onto them.
    — EW.com, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The slide in exports from the world’s factory floor adds to the gloom surrounding the global economy.
    — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Hof’s, of course, still carries chocolate made from its factory in Greenacres.
    — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
  • In a small upper window of the candy making factory in the walk-through playhouse.
    — Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 7 June 2024
  • Hyundai As for the factory line, that doesn't really exist here.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2023
  • He’s been a busboy, a railroad brakeman, a garbage man; he’s worked in a chemical plant and in a box factory.
    — Edward Hirsch, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Get factory-direct prices on top RV brands and see the latest floorplans on a fifth wheel with a large kitchen or a compact camper van.
    — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The tree factory is also the home of Ernie the Elf, Keebler’s commercial mascot.
    — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
  • For the time being, there will be no DeLorean factory, de Vries said.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 29 Aug. 2022
  • That’s enough business to open a new factory in New Mexico and hire as many as 250 new workers.
    — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • As the machinists return to factories this week, Boeing said a full restart will take weeks.
    — Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 13 Nov. 2024
  • On the surface, working for a place like Sama seemed like a huge step up for young people from the slums, many of whom had family roots in factory work.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2024
  • OpenAI hopes to raise hundreds of billions of dollars to construct computer chip factories in the Middle East.
    — Cade Metz, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2025
  • These economic constraints are one challenge to reopening domestic factories to make generic drugs in the United States, said Fox.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2025

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