How to Use postindustrial in a Sentence

postindustrial

adjective
  • Even in our postindustrial age, there remains something charged about a work that bears the mark of the artist’s hand.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • In his telling, the prehistoric and the postindustrial have much in common.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
  • An empty bank lobby becomes the drawing room of a postindustrial castle.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Republic, 15 May 2020
  • The postindustrial landscape of his native Bristol was his canvas and gallery.
    — ABC News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The postindustrial landscape of his native Bristol was his canvas and gallery.
    — Laurie Kellman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The postindustrial landscape of his native Bristol was his canvas and gallery.
    — Laurie Kellman, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Hip-hop, an insurgent art form with roots in postindustrial cities in the aftermath of the civil-rights movement, was thriving.
    — Imani Perry, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Against that backdrop, Shakti is already emerging as a thought leader on the future of craft in a postindustrial world.
    — Sarah Medford, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2026
  • In the postindustrial age, the community has hollowed, leading to poverty and crime.
    — cleveland, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Like other postindustrial cities, Detroit has been trying to solve joblessness for decades.
    — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2018
  • Lancy says these insights might hold lessons for parents in today’s postindustrial societies.
    — Colin Barras, Science | AAAS, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Edith Schloss’s memoir recalls a world of spacious, postindustrial studios filled with even bigger ideas about how to reform modern art.
    — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The show has connected a postindustrial Welsh city to the world, uniting fans online and in real life and sparking an economic boon.
    — Jennifer McClellan, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, by some measures, the housewives of the postindustrial age did more housework than their preindustrial equivalents.
    — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
  • The postindustrial port city sits along the nation’s busiest trading corridor, a region expected to see massive growth in coming years.
    — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 30 July 2019
  • One way of thinking of postindustrial America is to imagine it as a former rat park, slowly converting into a rat cage.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Some might argue that any reconnection between postindustrial man and the environment is good.
    — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 24 Nov. 2022
  • But in the working class remade and discarded for the postindustrial age, there is an uptick in drug abuse, one-parent families, and indebtedness.
    — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Today, the Scott resembles a postindustrial sacrifice zone, its once lush floodplain buried under heaps of mine tailings.
    — Ben Goldfarb, Science | AAAS, 7 June 2018
  • On the banks of the Delaware River, Trenton is a postindustrial city that’s been buffeted by bad news for decades.
    — Julie Besonen, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • There’s something of a military-postindustrial-complex feel to this disconcerting show, which seems spot-on for the anxieties of life today.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Chloe Lamford’s set is a kind of postindustrial purgatory — a towering, crumbling old garage, decades of dust and dirt gathered at the feet of its pillars.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
  • People who have lived through and are living the aftermath of the decline of the American city and postindustrial capitalism.
    — Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 14 Sep. 2017
  • From boom to bust Americans are used to having products and services one click away – a society often described as postindustrial and knowledge-based.
    — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • From boom to bust Americans are used to having products and services one click away - a society often described as postindustrial and knowledge-based.
    — Tony Schmitz, The Conversation, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Vuong, a prizewinning poet, evokes the beauty of a depressed, postindustrial Connecticut river town in language that shimmers.
    — Monitor Staff, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025
  • Image All three are small, postindustrial towns whose traditional industries — steel, silk and carpets — have declined in the men’s lifetimes.
    — Andrzej Lukowski, New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • Yet even this toxic broth supports an ecosystem of a sort, offering a key insight into how nature responds to human impact and a glimmer of hope as to how life might adapt to a postindustrial world.
    — Cal Flyn, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • That is until, abruptly, the quaintness gives way to a more eclectic quilt of neighborhoods that could be any postindustrial city of the American Northeast.
    — New York Times, 9 July 2022
  • His criminal history harkens back to a darker time in Boston, when the city was struggling through postindustrial malaise, racial strife and a shrinking population.
    — Jennifer Levitz, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018

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