How to Use industrial revolution in a Sentence

industrial revolution

noun
  • But the next wave will drive an industrial revolution that will create a wave of new, well-paying jobs.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The fourth industrial revolution will change the way people work and live.
    — Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Foody likes to describe it as the next industrial revolution.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Data may be the oil of the new industrial revolution, but there’s clearly a lot of waste and leakage going on.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The industrial revolutions crushed a lot of spirits (and lives).
    — Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
  • In terms of scale, think of how the industrial revolution transformed the agrarian age.
    — Ed Clendaniel, The Mercury News, 20 July 2019
  • The winner of the next industrial revolution will not be the region with the best engineers.
    — David Frykman, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • These trends cannot be reversed, any more than the industrial revolution or the emergence of computers.
    — Arjun Appadurai, Time, 19 May 2020
  • Dickens was angered by the impact of the industrial revolution on his country and its poor, and on himself in his youth.
    — John C. (chuck) Chalberg, Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
  • With the advent of the industrial revolution, growth rates in rich and poor nations diverged even further.
    — Dev Patel, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2024
  • The world’s oceans have soaked up nearly a third of humans’ greenhouse gas emissions since the industrial revolution.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 May 2023
  • Britain was burning coal in centuries before the industrial revolution, again, on a smaller scale.
    — Michael Calore, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Su pointed out to Wired that the same fear was expressed during the industrial revolution—and the world managed to adapt.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Those who came before us ensured that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution and of modern invention.
    — Philip B. Russell, The Mercury News, 19 July 2019
  • Signal in the Noise urges artists to take note of history and embrace the next industrial revolution.
    — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 5 June 2023
  • The Czech satirist was exploring the harms of the industrial revolution.
    — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • Data can drive the growth of the cannabis market, just like oil fueled the development of the industrial revolution.
    — Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2021
  • The birthplace of the industrial revolution is in dire need of innovation.
    — Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 13 June 2023
  • So this is 3000 times more impact than the industrial revolution.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Like many industries, fueling is a traditional one — with roots that go all the way back to the industrial revolution.
    — Jocelyn Sexton, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • But, the industrial revolution didn’t happen overnight, nor did Uber or Amazon.
    — Ryan Gottfried, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • But the scale of disruption today is predicted to be greater than anything that’s happened since the industrial revolution.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • From the early days of the industrial revolution to the rise of computers, concerns about job loss and societal upheaval have been prevalent.
    — Peter Pluim, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • While the world as a whole benefited from the big changes brought by the industrial revolution or globalization, some people were left behind.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 24 Apr. 2021
  • In popular memory, the anti-free traders came to be seen as akin to the machine-breaking luddites of the industrial revolution.
    — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
  • In the opening years of the cognitive industrial revolution, uncertainty about the future well exceeds any sense of the known.
    — Dr. Jonathan Reichental, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • But the industrial revolution has thrown off so much wealth that there’s enough left over to solve those problems too without sacrificing the higher living standards that come with it.
    — The Editors, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
  • But the number of species that have disappeared since the beginning of the industrial revolution has caused a crisis that some refer to as the sixth mass extinction event.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2022
  • Head of Sales - Sparking a sustainable industrial revolution that transforms how the world is made.
    — Christine Bailey, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The only question is which enterprises will survive the shakeout and lead the next industrial revolution.
    — Mark Minevich, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025

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