How to Use foundry in a Sentence

foundry

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  • The most interesting of them all: spinning off or selling Intel’s foundry, which makes chips.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The latter could mean a real hot war with China given the strategic importance of Taiwan’s semiconductor foundries.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The foundry is long gone and the site has been cleaned up.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The trade war this year has rocked the foundry with a one-two punch.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
  • No foundry in the U.S. would take on the complex build.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 30 June 2024
  • Dierkes' death was the second to occur at the Mapleton foundry in less than a year.
    — Alex Dalton, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2022
  • It’s used for glass, casting in foundries, even playgrounds and golf course sand traps.
    — Geoffrey Giller, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2019
  • Workers at the foundry and at the railroad grabbed weapons and followed Conger back to the center of town.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
  • Mathilda explores a foundry on Igun Street in Benin City.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Lisbon calls the smelters up from the foundry to cut through the museum’s safety door with their lances.
    — Tara Ariano, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The site of this foundry has an even deeper history than that, though.
    — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 26 May 2017
  • The threat from across the 110-mile-wide strait to the west of the foundries menaces Taiwan every second of every day.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Wisconsin ranks fifth among states in the number of foundries.
    — Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2024
  • H&Co is hardly the first type foundry to be absorbed by Monotype.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Setting up your own metal foundry starts with a propane torch.
    — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2016
  • Some of the sculptures will be cast in stone, some in metal in specialist foundries in Germany and the US.
    — Kirsty Lang For The Times, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The foundry alone will cost between $7 billion to $8 billion.
    — Biman Mukherji, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2022
  • No, this is the real deal, every bit as at home in a foundry or a fab shop as in your basement or garage.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The first bells produced by Revere’s foundry were met with mixed reviews.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 15 July 2017
  • The first bells produced by Revere’s foundry were met with mixed reviews.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 14 July 2017
  • The cube was cast at a foundry in Aarau, Switzerland, in a special handmade kiln built to hold both the volume of the gold and the box's large size.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 5 Feb. 2022
  • There are no foundry or maker’s marks to be seen on either side of either piece.
    — Jerry L. Dobesh | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Dierkes is the second person to die at the Mapleton foundry in the last six months, according to the Journal Star.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 8 June 2022
  • It was crafted at a shipbuilding yard in Nantes, France, because no foundry in the U.S. could cast a bell its size.
    — The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2024
  • But the former East Side foundry did more than just help shape the San Antonio skyline.
    — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The foundry is in a nondescript brick building alongside a busy road about four miles from PNC Park.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2022
  • His father worked in a foundry, and the family of 10 squeezed into a small house with one bathroom.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • The five-acre site along the river to be purchased is the former Sperry property, once home to a foundry.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2021
  • His father worked in an iron foundry, and his mother in a shirt factory.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2017
  • The presentation will explore the history of church and school bells in Avon as well as the foundries from which they were cast.
    — Courant Community, 11 Dec. 2017

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