Example Sentences

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Food preservatives are widely used in industrially processed foods to extend shelf life and maintain product quality.

From Science Daily • Jun. 18, 2026

Haute Couture predates ready-to-wear fashion, which is industrially produced clothing in large quantities.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

Ms. Gaul tellingly zeros in on her interviewees’ sense of the term as signifying “a contrast to anything imported as well as anything produced industrially or on a mass scale.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Cynthia Collins is a senior director at Ginkgo Bioworks, a company that helps firms develop their biotech products, and has assisted them in using E. coli industrially.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

Meanwhile, to its intense gratification, Pennsylvania had also discovered oil—not only discovered it but devised ways to make it industrially useful.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson