Example Sentences

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He’s been doing it since he was a kid, having grown up in a semi-industrial part of the suburbs of Melbourne on the verge of farmland.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2025

Local communities believe that certain fishing practices, such as spearfishing with scuba gear and semi-industrial fishing with purse seines and night lights, are major contributors to the decline of fish stocks.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2024

Four square miles of estuary vanished under spoils from urban regrades, a Harbor Island ship-canal excavation, an attempted Beacon Hill canal and sawmill wastes, to be redeveloped as a semi-industrial seaport.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023

The judges described it as "cheerfully idiosyncratic" and said it fitted in with the neighbouring semi-industrial hangar buildings.

From BBC • May 30, 2019

This conversion of agricultural into semi-industrial nations proceeds rapidly.

From American World Policies by Weyl, Walter E.