How to Use factory in a Sentence

factory

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  • She got a job in the factory.
  • The Polestar 2 is made in a Volvo Cars factory in China.
    — wsj.com, 15 May 2023
  • Your fast facts: This store is in a factory building dating back to 1919.
    — Katie Toussaint, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Hyundai As for the factory line, that doesn't really exist here.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Tesla has four factories up and running around the world and is due to open another, in Mexico, in 2025.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But the contrast is especially stark now, when the public’s gloom is so widespread, from the wealthy elite to factory workers.
    — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • About one-third of factories in China shut down during the pandemic.
    — Geoffrey Joyce, The Conversation, 20 July 2023
  • In 2025, the company plans to open a new factory in Richmond to supply the Americas.
    — David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • In addition to the factory price cuts, dealers are starting to wheel and deal on electric car inventory that has sat around on the lot for a few months.
    — Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The lad and the dad head to the countryside, with the older man’s factory switching to manufacturing the cockpit structures of fighter planes.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2023
  • His father was a manager of a plastics factory, and his mother tended to their home.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
  • In Chicago, the bus would be met by an associate, named Pablo Vega, who had grown up in a nearby suburb and worked in local factories.
    — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The factory is expected to employ 2,500 U.S. workers, Ford has said.
    — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 21 July 2023
  • The glass factory in Portland, Oregon, the only one that made the kind of glass the project required, got shut down over environmental concerns.
    — Peter Larsen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The company already makes iPhones in the country, and plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in new factories throughout the country.
    — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 11 July 2023
  • The retiree, who once sewed socks in a factory, sees herself as part of the growing number of Argentines slipping below the poverty line.
    — Natalie Alcoba, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Jan. 2024
  • There is no factory farming in these Liliputian duck houses (and some mansions, in case a duck prefers communal living).
    — Longreads, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The woman’s tomb indicates the area where the factory once stood later functioned as a cemetery, officials said.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Given the brand’s status as a viral cookware hit factory, none of this is surprising.
    — Carina Finn, Bon Appétit, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The company currently has several factories in the U.S., as well as plants near Berlin and Shanghai.
    — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 21 June 2023
  • China is a key market for Tesla, which has a factory in Shanghai that accounts for more than half of its global output.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune, 26 July 2023
  • In another room was a 21-year-old factory worker from Kentucky, a single parent not ready for a second child.
    — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 4 June 2023
  • The lawsuit was filed three days after workers at a Swedish factory that makes Tesla parts and sends them to the company’s gigafactory in Berlin joined the blockade.
    — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Donya speaks Dari with fellow Afghans and English with her co-workers, but the cookie factory is run by people who talk to one another in Cantonese.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The new store, which adjoins the factory where their bars are made, sells chocolate samplers, hot chocolate, brownie mixes, truffles and other items.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2023
  • Using her original recipes for baked goods and desserts, LaBelle utilizes a factory do the the baking then sells the items to the big box retailers for distribution.
    — Essence, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The company plans to open two new factories in the US and Vietnam next year, creating thousands of jobs at sites the company says will be carbon neutral.
    — Byryan Hogg, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The Chips Act set aside $39 billion in grants — plus loans and guarantees worth $75 billion — to convince chip companies to build factories on American soil.
    — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024

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