How to Use cannery in a Sentence

cannery

noun
  • The source of any fraud would’ve likely happened at the cannery.
    — cleveland, 23 June 2021
  • His father had been a welder and his mother a cannery worker.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The women at our house worked in the cannery and, afterward, at home.
    — Kirmen Uribe, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Save your burlap for transporting potatoes and leave the mason jars at the cannery.
    — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2018
  • Of course, that opens up a whole cannery of cans of worms, ethical and emotional.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The tide rises underneath the cannery, lifting the purse seine boats tied to the pier.
    — Anjuli Grantham, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Sep. 2017
  • When Muir last sailed through in 1899, this spot held a salmon cannery and a few shacks.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2018
  • The valley had large canneries where fruits were processed and canned daily.
    — Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • So, some women were able to get work in vegetable canneries, or even some of the work came into the camps.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Marry worked at one of the canneries Babe would often frequent for the job.
    — Skyler Caruso, People.com, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Both are accessed via ferry from Rockland, a onetime cannery town that’s now a food and art hot spot.
    — Will Grunewald, Outside Online, 18 June 2020
  • His mother worked at a fish cannery and his father was a painter at a steel producing company.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
  • There are a few locals still scratching out some pounds, but the out-of-towners and the cannery workers are mostly gone.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2021
  • Stirring in ginger beer gives it the kind of bite an old-timey cannery worker would appreciate.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The canneries have long been replaced with hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops.
    — Julie Watson, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • In another instance, a setnetter was caught on the cannery dock between stacks of fish totes.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Aug. 2019
  • His father was sickly, and Jack had to work in a cannery in West Oakland.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Known as a prime tourist spot, the gift store opened in 1983 in place of the Del Monte fruit cannery.
    — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • His father worked in a cannery, among other jobs, and for a year the family lived in a nearby railroad boxcar.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The women staffed the cannery, which never slept, producing 30 tons of product a day.
    — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Though some of the former canneries and plants across the city were razed, several have been adapted for other uses.
    — Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The private facility where the spill occurred was once used as a steamship depot, floatplane base and cannery.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Packed with locals, the decor is industrial, a reflection of the eatery’s former life as a cannery.
    — Peter Cheng, Los Angeles Magazine, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Or learn about the history of local foods by taking a vibrant tour through one of four sardine canneries in the region.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • More than 40 years later, a third-hand account claimed the stranger was no more than a stowaway with area cannery experience.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2022
  • Arthur was a horse trader, and while attending school, Smith worked with him — and in canneries and on farms — throughout her childhood.
    — Jillian Steinhauer, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Once a center of fur trading and canneries, Astoria’s historic homes still stand, and the town almost seems lost in time.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Commercial fishing here began with the opening of the first cannery in the 1880s.
    — Miranda Weiss, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The first cannery came to Homer in 1939, meaning there were boats fishing for salmon before that, Mitchell said.
    — Elizabeth Earl, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Carlos landed in Kodiak in 1983 and got a start working in the cannery.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018

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