Example Sentences

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Planters operated the nation’s first “big businesses,” managing large labor forces through factory-like regimentation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Today, researchers are pursuing what many have termed a factory-like approach to analysing ancient DNA2, with the processing of hundreds of samples.

From Nature • Aug. 27, 2019

Intergalactic creatures are said to live in the ramshackle, factory-like apartments above the shops, here presented as stalls, creating a cacophony of life and noise.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2019

The lighting in the new cars produces “a pallid, factory-like, and unwelcoming ambiance,” as one citizen declared in an anonymous online rant last month.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2017

Through the hedge could be seen the desolate yard, and the many-windowed, factory-like pottery, over the hedge could be seen the chimneys and the outhouses.

From England, My England by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)