How to Use industrialize in a Sentence

industrialize

verb
Definition of industrializenext
  • The government hopes to industrialize some of the agricultural regions.
  • As agriculture intensified and industrialized, the farm, too, grew.
    — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
  • But in the process many people were put out of work; rural and formerly industrialized sections of the country did not keep up with the big cities.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Other than South Africa and a handful of countries in North Africa, most of the continent has failed to industrialize.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • But the drift away from target men may have its roots, too, in the race to industrialize talent production over much the same time period.
    — New York Times, 17 June 2022
  • Over the years, as demand rose, attempts were made to industrialize the pollination process, to no avail.
    — Lior Lev Sercarz, Saveur, 3 Oct. 2016
  • In the 1850s, England was industrializing at breakneck speed, and laborers feared the new machines would put them out of work.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2023
  • But as the east side became industrialized, people moved out.
    — oregonlive.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The first city in the country to industrialize, Medellín has long thought of itself at the forefront of Colombian capitalism.
    — Steven Cohen, The New Republic, 18 June 2018
  • But after the school moved, the site was heavily industrialized.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
  • And as the country industrialized and urbanized, child labor moved from the fields to factories and textile mills.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2023
  • However, Rolex this year has turned to a laser technique used in the removal of cataracts in its quest to industrialize the creation of unique, flawless decorations for its dials.
    — Tim Barber, Wired, 22 Nov. 2021
  • For Hall, the industrialized, commercialized world often seemed an intrusion, like a neon sign along a dirt road.
    — Hillel Italie, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2018
  • But farms and factories helped to industrialize the region.
    — Allison Keeley, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2022
  • And then, when the rest of the nation raced ahead, industrializing and expanding at a breakneck pace, the South remained behind — the poorest American region, by far.
    — David French, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • But as European powers went on to colonize most of the planet and then industrialized at home, the people of India and China became among the world’s poorest.
    — Alex Travelli, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The reaction takes brute force—up to 250 atmospheres of pressure in the tall, narrow steel reactors—a process first industrialized by German chemist Carl Bosch.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 12 July 2018
  • Whether guns were the deciding factor without which England would not have industrialized is open to question.
    — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Half a century later, camps would be industrialized using the power of a modern state.
    — Andrea Pitzer, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Early Days Originally an agricultural area, skid row industrialized with the arrival of the trains in the 1870s.
    — Zoie Matthew, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 June 2018
  • One of the main reasons behind this large percentage is that so much of the power-generating hardware is new, due to China and India's push to industrialize.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 July 2019
  • Washington said of the city whose fates rose on the expansion of post-World War II manufacturing but suffered as the region de-industrialized.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 2019
  • The region had been floundering since at least the end of the Civil War, falling further and further behind a rapidly industrializing nation.
    — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • Google industrialized this process by running a bunch of robots in parallel, which sped things up enormously, but you’re still constrained by those pesky physical arms.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 May 2019
  • Now there are about 50 vineyards total—largely small-scale, family-owned, and non-industrialized.
    — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Jan. 2017
  • As more countries industrialize and Wi-Fi becomes more common, even some of the most remote populations are taking the time to use and create social media accounts.
    — Salvador Ordorica, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The United States is rich enough, industrialized enough, and far enough from the tropics that the rising temperatures of our changing climate aren't going to make any place uninhabitable.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2020
  • The rational measures of work that are often taken for granted today were unfamiliar concepts when the U.S. and Great Britain first industrialized.
    — Sarah Archer, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2018
  • This is largely the outcome of more than a century of mass migration, as the more rapidly industrializing Catalonia drew workers from poorer regions of Spain.
    — Eric Guntermann, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Amid all this, the United States was a rapidly industrializing upstart looking to control North America.
    — David A. James, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 July 2017

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