How to Use industrialize in a Sentence

industrialize

verb
  • The government hopes to industrialize some of the agricultural regions.
  • But as the east side became industrialized, people moved out.
    — oregonlive.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Those dollars have saved people and helped industrialize nations the world over.
    — Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2025
  • But as ports industrialized, seagrass was dismissed as a visual blight.
    — Richard Morgan, Time, 29 June 2026
  • But after the school moved, the site was heavily industrialized.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
  • These scams have been industrialized and are fast becoming the most likely way you’ll be defrauded.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Over the years, as demand rose, attempts were made to industrialize the pollination process, to no avail.
    — Lior Lev Sercarz, Saveur, 3 Oct. 2016
  • Africa and other emerging economies seeking to industrialize are out of options.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 20 Nov. 2025
  • The process of salt collection in the bay was industrialized in the 1800s.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • But the drift away from target men may have its roots, too, in the race to industrialize talent production over much the same time period.
    — New York Times, 17 June 2022
  • But in the process many people were put out of work; rural and formerly industrialized sections of the country did not keep up with the big cities.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Half a century later, camps would be industrialized using the power of a modern state.
    — Andrea Pitzer, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017
  • China industrialized when coal was cheap and solar was expensive.
    — Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • And as the country industrialized and urbanized, child labor moved from the fields to factories and textile mills.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2023
  • Whether guns were the deciding factor without which England would not have industrialized is open to question.
    — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2018
  • For Hall, the industrialized, commercialized world often seemed an intrusion, like a neon sign along a dirt road.
    — Hillel Italie, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2018
  • Smog is also a growing concern in countries such as India that have rapidly industrialized.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
  • But Michael industrialized the package, fusing music, dance, style, and branding.
    — Steven Gray, Time, 29 Apr. 2026
  • In the new South, one scrabbling to industrialize, business owners could now hire unpaid labor through the penal system.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Now there are about 50 vineyards total—largely small-scale, family-owned, and non-industrialized.
    — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Jan. 2017
  • Proofs of concept that never industrialize.
    — Akash M Dubey, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Google industrialized this process by running a bunch of robots in parallel, which sped things up enormously, but you’re still constrained by those pesky physical arms.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 May 2019
  • As the Northeast industrialized, agriculture moved west, eastern forests returned, and wildlife made a comeback.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This narrative thrived as the nation industrialized in the nineteenth century.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 1 May 2023
  • The movement of Black people to jobs in Georgia’s industrializing cities resulted in the growth of strikes and boycotts.
    — Richard F. Doner, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2022
  • But industrializing such breakthroughs often takes decades.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
  • During that time, northern cities like Turin and Milan industrialized rapidly, leading to mass migration from the south.
    — Wilson Tarbox, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Other than South Africa and a handful of countries in North Africa, most of the continent has failed to industrialize.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Reusable heavy-lift is crushing launch costs, and orbital logistics are industrializing.
    — Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The first city in the country to industrialize, Medellín has long thought of itself at the forefront of Colombian capitalism.
    — Steven Cohen, The New Republic, 18 June 2018

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