Example Sentences

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The end of Fox feels like another rattle in the slow death of what many still call the studio system, which hasn’t resembled the factorylike days of the old MGM for a long time.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2019

“All over the empire, sculptors were busy churning out standardized effigies of Augustus, mostly in marble but some in bronze,” Mr. Hughes writes, noting that this production seemed to be organized in “efficiently factorylike ways.”

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2011

He would strip every conceivable frill out of Brown’s architecture to create “more of a factorylike building.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

"What's that big plant off there to the northward?" asked the Colonel, indicating a group of factorylike buildings whose walls and windows were illumined by the glare of the flames in the freight-yards.

From Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 by Various