How to Use sweatshop in a Sentence

sweatshop

noun
  • There’s a sweatshop feel from the days when the place was a textile mill.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The doors to stairwells and exits at the sweatshop were locked.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Her mother was a garment worker, who toiled away in a sweatshop.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 12 July 2021
  • Zara has long been accused of using slave labor and sweatshops to make their clothes.
    — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 3 Nov. 2017
  • If your leggings are recycled but were sewn in a sweatshop, how is that progress?
    — Emily Farra, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The sweatshop owners locked the door every night from the outside.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
  • And, in the nineties, Nike faced a boycott over its reliance on sweatshop labor.
    — James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
  • Her father, a tailor, found work in a sweatshop and died when Stella was 2.
    — Andrew Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • And there’s no information on how to take care of yourself in a garment sweatshop.
    — Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2020
  • God bless these child actors talking about feminazis and sweatshops.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 10 Dec. 2017
  • Her tyranny extends to a sweatshop in China where her clothing gets made.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
  • How does being a politician compare to being an artist and sweatshop overlord?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
  • My all time favorites are about child labor at Apple’s iPod sweatshops.
    — Leander Kahney, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2007
  • The scene is reminiscent of countless sweatshops across Asia.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • The exposure of the sweatshop was initially a scary prospect, Clinton said.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Children start appearing in sweatshops because both parents are working there and have no means of childcare support.
    — Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Lilibeth, forced to travel to town to settle debts, leaves María to fend for herself at a sweatshop where children sort garbage for resale.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Her mother had been in New York for the past few months, working in a sweatshop to save enough money to retrieve her daughter.
    — USA Today, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Less than 2% of women working in Bangladesh sweatshops for fast fashion retailers earn a living wage.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The sweatshop foreman may say that the little girls sewing sneakers have never been better taken care of, but their moist eyes say, Send help now.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • They weren’t locked away in some sweatshop, but bound by their own powerlessness in restaurants visited by many thousands of customers over the years.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Su and her team sued the workers’ captors, as well as the manufacturers and retailers of the clothes produced in the sweatshop.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Her mother worked in New York City sweatshops, where her duties included sewing beads on ladies’ purses.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2017
  • This is barely enough to provide for your most basic necessities, but the alternatives to working in a sweatshop are even worse.
    — Hrishikesh Joshi, National Review, 8 Sep. 2017
  • She was raised by her mother, who worked as a sweatshop seamstress, and her maternal grandparents, both of whom were born in Mexico.
    — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Like other on- and offline fast-fashion retailers, Boohoo has been trying to move on from a series of sweatshop scandals.
    — Samantha Conti, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024
  • At the same time, Priestly’s magazine gets embroiled in a sweatshop scandal that does a number on their PR.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The company benefits from an 18-year-old state law that was originally intended to stamp out sweatshops but has come up short.
    — Sari Botton, Longreads, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Meanwhile, Miranda has gone viral too, in the bad way, for publishing a piece about a fashion brand since revealed to use sweatshop labor.
    — Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Brown is at pains to note that the sweatshop manager Frank, played with passion and ferment by Patrick Andrews, is far from a perfect man.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017

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