How to Use industrialist in a Sentence

industrialist

noun
  • The gains of growth went to industrialists, who saw their rate of profit double.
    — Carl Benedikt Frey For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 26 July 2019
  • Or, to put it in more grandiose terms, the tyrannical industrialist.
    — Jake Muncy, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2016
  • This risk has pushed some industrialists to find new supply chains that avoid Taiwan.
    — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The police department of that town happens to be on the side of the industrialists.
    — Longreads, 24 Nov. 2014
  • Yet, T’Challa as king rather than industrialist, puts far more at risk than Stark did.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Carnegie went on to become one of the wealthiest and most successful industrialists of his day.
    — Lauren Walser, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Their argument was not with technology, per se, but with the ways that wealthy industrialists were robbing them of their way of life.
    — Andrew Maynard, Fortune, 12 May 2023
  • Populism has pressed the claims of the less powerful against those of the landowners, the financiers, the industrialists and other species of elite.
    — Ron Elving, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Over the years, both the ruling party and the industrialist have denied any suggestion of favoritism.
    — Mark Thompson, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
  • This era saw the rise of powerful industrialists who amassed enormous wealth, often at the expense of workers and the public.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2025
  • The wooden box that held her body was turned into walking sticks—the industrialist Andrew Carnegie got one.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Sep. 2019
  • History has proven those industrialists wrong every time.
    — Michelle A. Williams, STAT, 2 Feb. 2026
  • By 1996, all seven of the tobacco industrialists had left the business in response to the probe.
    — Daniel Fernandez, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Meanwhile, the two and street thief Elle are pursued by a power-hungry industrialist and his growing army of evil Gremlins.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Recently, the antitrust holdouts have found a new ally in the industrialist Charles Koch.
    — David McCabe, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
  • South of the city, past the landfill where the city failed to build its waste-recycling plant, are the gypsum mines that, along with salt, made Bakhmut attractive to industrialists.
    — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • So, yeah, the stately venue, which was a gift to the city from industrialist Claus Spreckels, is going to require a little fixing up from time to time.
    — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • In one heartbreaking plot, a poor mother gives away her son, August, to the upper-class industrialists who employed her now deceased husband.
    — Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Expert climbers who have scaled Mount Everest will come to town to speak with San Francisco industrialists.
    — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Leyson, one of the hundreds of Jews saved by Schindler, a German industrialist, survived Plaszow as a boy.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Nov. 2021
  • There was one hint of the scares at the end of Episode 1 as Elle meets up with the English industrialist whose eyes flame unnaturally.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 18 June 2022
  • Schindler’s List tells the story of the eponymous German industrialist, who is played by Liam Neeson.
    — Emily Tamkin, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
  • In Mukadam’s assault, police have charged Zahir Jaffar, the son of a wealthy industrialist, with murder.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021
  • His fat cat industrialist Zsa-Zsa Korda is no underground rebel.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Not a defender of big landowners and industrialists, Peron broke the mold of the traditional strongman.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Their clients were from a higher economic and social bracket—aristocrats, industrialists, movie directors, record moguls, rock stars.
    — Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Batman used to be rich, the alter ego of Bruce Wayne, a wealthy playboy, philanthropist, and industrialist in Gotham City.
    — Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 28 June 2026
  • David Hamilton Koch was born in 1940, the son of a tough industrialist father who pitted his sons against each other to toughen them up.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Bardot heads to Tahiti with her third husband, German industrialist Gunter Sachs.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 28 Dec. 2025
  • For decades engineers, architects, futurists, industrialists, investors and politicians have been pining for a better, faster and cheaper way to build homes.
    — Ben Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026

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