How to Use sweatshop in a Sentence

sweatshop

noun
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  • There’s a sweatshop feel from the days when the place was a textile mill.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The doors to stairwells and exits at the sweatshop were locked.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The sweatshop owners locked the door every night from the outside.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
  • And, in the nineties, Nike faced a boycott over its reliance on sweatshop labor.
    — James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
  • Fievel is sold to a sweatshop by Warren T. Rat, a cat disguised as a rat.
    — Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Her father, a tailor, found work in a sweatshop and died when Stella was 2.
    — Andrew Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Zara has long been accused of using slave labor and sweatshops to make their clothes.
    — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 3 Nov. 2017
  • If your leggings are recycled but were sewn in a sweatshop, how is that progress?
    — Emily Farra, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Her mother was a garment worker, who toiled away in a sweatshop.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 12 July 2021
  • Her mother had been in New York for the past few months, working in a sweatshop to save enough money to retrieve her daughter.
    — USA Today, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The exposure of the sweatshop was initially a scary prospect, Clinton said.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • And there’s no information on how to take care of yourself in a garment sweatshop.
    — Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2020
  • There was what was essentially a sweatshop in the basement.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 12 May 2021
  • As a child, Sheikh worked up to 20 hours a day in a sweatshop in Nepal stitching fabric that would become clothes sold to consumers unaware of their true cost.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 23 May 2023
  • My all time favorites are about child labor at Apple’s iPod sweatshops.
    — Leander Kahney, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2007
  • Su and her team sued the workers’ captors, as well as the manufacturers and retailers of the clothes produced in the sweatshop.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Brown is at pains to note that the sweatshop manager Frank, played with passion and ferment by Patrick Andrews, is far from a perfect man.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017
  • Lilibeth, forced to travel to town to settle debts, leaves María to fend for herself at a sweatshop where children sort garbage for resale.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 12 Sep. 2022
  • In bygone days, children in the U.S. toiled in factories, mills, sweatshops, farms, and mines; now, many are still out in the fields or roaming construction sites.
    — Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, 15 May 2018
  • How does being a politician compare to being an artist and sweatshop overlord?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The scene is reminiscent of countless sweatshops across Asia.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • Krux takes up several floors of a brick building at the base of South Park, a onetime place of sweatshops that has filled with start-ups and venture capitalists.
    — Quentin Hardy, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2016
  • Her mother worked in New York City sweatshops, where her duties included sewing beads on ladies’ purses.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Less than 2% of women working in Bangladesh sweatshops for fast fashion retailers earn a living wage.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2020
  • They weren’t locked away in some sweatshop, but bound by their own powerlessness in restaurants visited by many thousands of customers over the years.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
  • God bless these child actors talking about feminazis and sweatshops.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 10 Dec. 2017
  • The Morning Show,’ a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing — made by a company that runs sweatshops in China.
    — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2020
  • She was raised by her mother, who worked as a sweatshop seamstress, and her maternal grandparents, both of whom were born in Mexico.
    — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Just the year before, women had been out on a massive garment strike, the Uprising of the Twenty Thousand, and the Tammany machine that claimed to be for the people had sided with the sweatshop owners.
    — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Fires, as the name suggests, were a constant threat to workers in the crowded sweatshops, printing plants and factory lofts stacked within its 19th-century buildings.
    — Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023

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