How to Use industrialism in a Sentence

industrialism

noun
  • There are lessons that don’t come easily for many of us raised in late-stage industrialism.
    — Florence Williams, Outside Online, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Have the promises of human freedom and a meaningful life been betrayed by a bloated and out of scale industrialism?
    — Harrison Stetler, The New York Review of Books, 21 Jan. 2020
  • When feudalism gave way to industrialism, factory workers did much the same thing.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The hallmark of this kind of goal is quantification, as a well as an overall punitive feeling that has more than a whiff of industrialism and the Protestant work ethic.
    — Hazlitt, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Fortune shows the prevalence of industrialism in Texas and, even more intensely, its proximity to human life.
    — Wired Photo Department, Wired, 21 Dec. 2021
  • In their own ways, each company has grown to become modern symbols of American industrialism and down-to-earth luxury.
    — Laura Burstein, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2021
  • In Pursuit of the Object, at a Proper Distance presents a monument of industrialism as a metaphor for an overwhelming problem.
    — Jakob Schiller, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2015
  • This is a city at the intersection of minimalism and maximalism, of industrialism and colonialism, of modernity and history.
    — Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Under both capitalism and socialism, industrialism was celebrated as bringing modernity and progress, worth the decades of struggle, upheaval, and violence.
    — David Sessions, The New Republic, 2 Apr. 2018
  • That changed during the early nineteenth century, when booming industrialism called for new specialists, and inequalities intensified across explosive growth.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • At the center of this fractured saga, whose companion pieces will touch on American utopianism and the birth of 20th-century industrialism, is the eponymous Lydie Breeze.
    — Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • The Liberal Party’s drive to separate church and state had become viable, as industrialism, nationalism, and secularism rose to prominence.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 May 2017
  • Investing in green industrialism will help countries thrive and fuel the growth of clean energy technologies that the world so desperately needs to guarantee planetary and economic stability everywhere.
    — María Mendiluce, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Another new name on the scene is Elena Velez, who takes inspiration from her Wisconsin roots to create fashion that merges on Midwest industrialism and chic apocalyptic.
    — Kristen Bateman, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Sherrell does not offer statistics to support his assertions about the environmental impact of industrialism, colonialism and capitalism.
    — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Confederates boasted that their antebellum culture was more romantic, natural, pristine, healthy and moral than was the bustle, grime and hyper-capitalism of Northern industrialism.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2017
  • But Gandhi, deeply hostile to scientism and industrialism, actually advocated the re-creation of self-sufficient village communities.
    — Pankaj Mishra, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
  • The poems address race, labor, industrialism, the region’s indigenous people, and the powerful interplay — sometimes cruel, sometimes nurturing — of people on the environment and the environment on the people.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2021
  • Whatever truth there is in this view—originally directed not at industrialism but at Benthamite forms of utilitarianism, a very different thing—conceptual genealogy probably won’t dismantle the modern prison.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • The weekend, for example, was invented about a hundred years ago, a compromise struck between religiosity and management culture, and facilitated by the specific economic and political conditions of late industrialism.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 July 2022
  • Western industrialism arrived in the 19th century under the Meiji Restoration, but even then, Japan found a way to absorb foreign ideas without surrendering its identity — to modernize without Westernizing.
    — Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025

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