How to Use foundry in a Sentence

foundry

noun
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  • The trade war this year has rocked the foundry with a one-two punch.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Polich Tallix, a fine art foundry that counts Di Modica as a client, will oversee the repairs.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The trip included a stop at her uncle’s bell foundry in Heidelberg, Germany.
    — Karen Ann Cullotta, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • That’s dented exports of commodities like soybeans and wheat, which in turn has hurt equipment sales by foundry customer John Deere.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Later, Revere opened a foundry popular for producing cannons and metal bells.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Following the tour, participants spend time in the foundry creating a metal art mold, basically a sand-block mold, and then watch as the metal artists pour the iron into their mold.
    — Birmingham Magazine, al, 17 Oct. 2019
  • After a rigorous six-week hunt, Chisum’s foundry — called Launch Factory — chose two local scientists to lead its first venture.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2019
  • The condos are part of the Paul Revere Heritage Site, which will also include a restaurant and museum in the original foundry.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Accordingly, those leaders have poured more than $100 billion in subsidies into building Chinese chip foundries, with mixed results.
    — Matt Pottinger, Foreign Affairs, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The foundry is long gone and the site has been cleaned up.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Dierkes' death was the second to occur at the Mapleton foundry in less than a year.
    — Alex Dalton, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2022
  • 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 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
  • H&Co is hardly the first type foundry to be absorbed by Monotype.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The foundry alone will cost between $7 billion to $8 billion.
    — Biman Mukherji, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The island will also house a new TSMC foundry, worth roughly around $6.7 billion, set to open late next year.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023
  • After six years at the foundry, Powers emerged as a master craftsman.
    — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Artist David Deming’s statue soon will go to a foundry to be bronzed, a process that will take two to six months, Gambatese said.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2020
  • While most life-sized pieces take around six weeks to complete, a backlog at the foundry means the new Robinson statue will be ready in six to eight months.
    — Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2024
  • This red earth suggests that the area was once used for something involving lots of heat, like a foundry, a bakery, or a kiln.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The company announced that Intel's foundries would expand in ways unheard of in the past.
    — Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024

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