How to Use the Industrial Revolution in a Sentence

the Industrial Revolution

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  • Think back to the onset of the internet or even the Industrial Revolution.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The new study can’t explain the exact role pollution had in the artistic trends of the Industrial Revolution.
    — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The fabric was found preserved in a peat bog and predates the Industrial Revolution.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
  • By the mid-1700s, with the Industrial Revolution in the global north, a more mechanistic view of the world began to emerge, and the line between living things and machines began to blur.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Not since the Industrial Revolution has the nature of work undergone such intense and rapid change.
    — Julia Hobsbawm, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Global inequality began to rise at the start of the Industrial Revolution and peaked during the Cold War.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Los Angeles has been a haven for transplants and immigrants since the tail end of the Industrial Revolution and the introduction of the railroad.
    — Diana Ruzova, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • That understanding stretches back more than 200 years to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
    — Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Until the Industrial Revolution, life expectancy was about 30 years or so, and people died of wars, of famines, of genocides, of plagues, of disasters.
    — Carrie Rubinstein, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But in the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution produced a class of people who were neither rich enough not to work, nor poor enough to put up with forgoing pleasure.
    — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Some experts argued that the start of the Anthropocene could be better defined in other ways, such as the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Blake began writing the poem, which deals with themes of temptation and the apocalypse, in 1796, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Then came the Industrial Revolution and dams to power mills that produced cornmeal and flour, lumber, paper and cotton.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 3 May 2024
  • Crutzen proposed that the epoch should begin in 1784, shortly after the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2023
  • The gray scale portion of the mural represents the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the extraction of fossil fuels.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The world has warmed by a little more than 1 degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution, and the report says 2 degrees of warming would more than double the economic toll from climate change.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
  • This is because wars happen where people live, and the world has been urbanizing since the Industrial Revolution.
    — David Kilcullen, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2023
  • However, rates of eczema didn’t spike with the Industrial Revolution, which began around 1760.
    — Ian Myles, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Their prey could have helped sequester the rising carbon emissions from the Industrial Revolution.
    — Benjamin Cassidy, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2024
  • The planet has already warmed by more than 1 degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 June 2024
  • With the arrival of the Industrial Revolution and mass production during the 19th century, tea towels, like many things, became more widely available across the pond too.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Today, there are 2.5-times more methane molecules up there than there were prior to the Industrial Revolution.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The American lemonade business began in the mid-1800s, just at the Industrial Revolution’s peak.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Aubergine, claret, peacock blue, teal green With the Industrial Revolution came innovation in the paint industry, including the use of zinc oxide in house paint, which helped colors stay brighter longer.
    — Kristen Hartke, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Before the Industrial Revolution put a value on the workday, our ancestors used to sleep in two chunks with a gap of a few hours in between, historical research suggests.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
  • This is the ultimate big, if true, because Philippon looked at hundreds of years of data, going back to 1890, shortly after the Industrial Revolution.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The image of the mustache-twirling landlord as villain goes back at least to the Industrial Revolution, when popular culture made the role synonymous with coldhearted extraction from the poor.
    — Michael Friedrich, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • That’s up from 280 parts per million before the Industrial Revolution.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Ever since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, economic output has grown in lockstep with carbon emissions.
    — Justin Worland, TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Advertisement The first spans the early 19th century to the midway point of the 20th century, as the Industrial Revolution powered the rise of the West and the unfurling of its various sprawling, exploitative empires around the world.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 June 2023

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