How to Use industrial revolution in a Sentence

industrial revolution

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  • But the next wave will drive an industrial revolution that will create a wave of new, well-paying jobs.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Data may be the oil of the new industrial revolution, but there’s clearly a lot of waste and leakage going on.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The Czech satirist was exploring the harms of the industrial revolution.
    — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • Most of Texas' oldest structures date back to the 1800s, which was around the same time as the industrial revolution and westward expansion.
    — Daniela Sternitzky-Di Napoli, Houston Chronicle, 26 June 2018
  • The very first geologic map, made by William Smith in 1815, was made to find coal to fuel the British industrial revolution.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Dickens was angered by the impact of the industrial revolution on his country and its poor, and on himself in his youth.
    — John C. (chuck) Chalberg, Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
  • Signal in the Noise urges artists to take note of history and embrace the next industrial revolution.
    — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 5 June 2023
  • In terms of scale, think of how the industrial revolution transformed the agrarian age.
    — Ed Clendaniel, The Mercury News, 20 July 2019
  • The increase in greenhouse gas has caused the planet to warm close to 1.5 degrees Celsius since the industrial revolution.
    — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
  • With the advent of the industrial revolution, growth rates in rich and poor nations diverged even further.
    — Dev Patel, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2024
  • Data can drive the growth of the cannabis market, just like oil fueled the development of the industrial revolution.
    — Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2021
  • The world’s oceans have soaked up nearly a third of humans’ greenhouse gas emissions since the industrial revolution.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 May 2023
  • The whole economic premise of Fordism was that the laborers who powered the late industrial revolution, who built the cars, should also be able to afford them.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
  • These trends cannot be reversed, any more than the industrial revolution or the emergence of computers.
    — Arjun Appadurai, Time, 19 May 2020
  • The timing was no coincidence: Britain had reached the peak of the industrial revolution.
    — Krzysztof Pelc, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The 1969 fire on the Cuyahoga River did more than spotlight the need to clean up the potty mess left behind by America’s industrial revolution.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 9 June 2019
  • Those who came before us ensured that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution and of modern invention.
    — Philip B. Russell, The Mercury News, 19 July 2019
  • But the number of species that have disappeared since the beginning of the industrial revolution has caused a crisis that some refer to as the sixth mass extinction event.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2022
  • Land use practices that began in the colonial era gave way to the industrial revolution in Europe, leading to the exploitation of resources around the world, De Silva said.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Prior to the industrial revolution, these trees formed endless stands in the Eastern forests of North America.
    — Paul Robbins, Scientific American, 15 June 2021
  • Rock climbers, hikers, and families also visit the historic coal region, which is still home to many of the mining structures from the heyday of the industrial revolution and war-boom of the early 1900s.
    — Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2021
  • So this is 3000 times more impact than the industrial revolution.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Another dinner in August will honor the industrial revolution and the turn of the century in the early 1900s.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Head of Sales - Sparking a sustainable industrial revolution that transforms how the world is made.
    — Christine Bailey, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Machines of the late industrial revolution, around the middle of the 19th century, made cloth and paper much easier to produce.
    — Alice Bell, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Fish and chips in their current form date from the 1870s, as the industrial revolution allowed for the invention of steam-trawling boats, ice machines and a wider supply of rail links to bring abundant supplies of fish from the North Sea to England.
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The birthplace of the industrial revolution is in dire need of innovation.
    — Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 13 June 2023
  • But, the industrial revolution didn’t happen overnight, nor did Uber or Amazon.
    — Ryan Gottfried, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • That explains why methane has contributed at least 30 percent of total global warming since the industrial revolution began.
    — Justin Mikulka, Scientific American, 15 July 2024
  • New Haven, the birthplace of the American industrial revolution, was home to pioneering innovators like Eli Whitney.
    — Steven Delco, Hartford Courant, 8 Aug. 2024

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