How to Use meatpacking in a Sentence

meatpacking

noun
  • His state is home to many meatpacking plants, as is Minnesota.
    — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Now, a dozen years later, a smaller meatpacking plant had opened where the former plant used to be.
    — Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Her boyfriend, who worked with her at the meatpacking plant, contacted police.
    — Greeley Tribune, The Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2017
  • The strike marks the first walkout at an American meatpacking plant in four decades.
    — Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 16 Mar. 2026
  • End of the line for Farmer John’s meatpacking plant in Vernon.
    — Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
  • At a small Oregon meatpacking plant, first came fear, then a plan Working from home, in your bed?
    — Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2020
  • With butcher shops lining its streets, the area was known as the city’s original meatpacking district.
    — Lennie Omalza, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Feb. 2026
  • That's where locations -- like a crowded night club, a church service or a meatpacking plant -- come into play.
    — Andrea Kane, CNN, 12 June 2020
  • The state is one of the nation’s top producers of corn and hogs, and also has a large meatpacking industry.
    — Ken Thomas, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The coolest place to hang out in Munich is Schlachthofviertel, the meatpacking district.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 June 2023
  • One [meatpacking] plant might have 2,000 employees over three shifts.
    — Eben Shapiro, Time, 15 Aug. 2021
  • And that wasn’t the only meatpacking plant impacted by the spread of the novel coronavirus.
    — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2020
  • For the most part, that prediction hasn’t been borne out in places where there are mandates, such as in the meatpacking and airline industries.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2022
  • For Eldon, jobs came from meatpacking, based in the nearby coal-mining town of Ottumwa.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • No one knows when the coronavirus first arrived in the Panhandle’s meatpacking plants.
    — Lauren Hilgers, The New Yorker, 10 July 2020
  • Labor is one that permeates every level—at the farms, at the meatpacking plants, and even in getting the products to the store shelves.
    — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Constructed in 1919, the campus was once the world’s largest and most modern meatpacking plant.
    — Mars King, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The top three outbreak sites include two Ohio prisons and a meatpacking plant in South Dakota.
    — Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Another study pinned about 8% of all cases and about 4% of all deaths by mid-summer to the meatpacking industry.
    — USA Today, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The area once was the center of the slaughterhouse and meatpacking industries in Cleveland.
    — Marvin Fong, cleveland.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Sonia Villanueva Áviles worked on the meatpacking line at Rochelle Foods for more than a decade.
    — Derek Kravitz, Georgia Gee, Madison McVan, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Strauss Brands has sold the land the company planned to build a new meatpacking plant on after canceling the project earlier this year.
    — Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2022
  • First, the Para state deal covers only the slaughterhouses owned by the meatpacking companies that signed on to it.
    — Jesse Hyde, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The three-week strike marked the first walkout at an American meatpacking plant in four decades and the first walkout at the Greeley plant.
    — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Many of the people hit hardest by the spread of the virus are essential workers in retail, meatpacking and delivery services.
    — Sean Slovenski, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • About 50% of the workers at two local meatpacking plants have been vaccinated, Mackedanz said.
    — Mary Lynn Smith, Star Tribune, 10 July 2021
  • At the time of the executive order, 16 of the 34 meatpacking plants that had closed due to coronavirus were still shut down.
    — Rachel Axon and Sky Chadde, USA TODAY, 19 June 2020
  • The 65-year-old meatpacking company next door to the killer's former house continues to survive, but by only the slimmest of margins.
    — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Sabra Lewis left her job as wine director of the Standard, in the meatpacking district, in 2019.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • In 1995, the partners opened a second Fairway, in a former meatpacking plant in Harlem.
    — Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 17 June 2020

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