How to Use the Industrial Revolution in a Sentence

the Industrial Revolution

noun
  • Since the Industrial Revolution, however, beer can be brewed at any time of year.
    — Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Coal was why England was the seat of the Industrial Revolution.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The fabric was found preserved in a peat bog and predates the Industrial Revolution.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Think back to the onset of the internet or even the Industrial Revolution.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • For Kingsnorth, the Industrial Revolution marked the point of no return.
    — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The past three years have been the hottest on record, compared to the average before the Industrial Revolution.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Let’s go back to the Industrial Revolution, when all the workers wanted to smash up the machinery.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 1 May 2026
  • Not since the Industrial Revolution has the nature of work undergone such intense and rapid change.
    — Julia Hobsbawm, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The new study can’t explain the exact role pollution had in the artistic trends of the Industrial Revolution.
    — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Their prey could have helped sequester the rising carbon emissions from the Industrial Revolution.
    — Benjamin Cassidy, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2024
  • The popes have critiqued the Industrial Revolution, right?
    — Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The popes have critiqued the Industrial Revolution, right?
    — ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Then came the Industrial Revolution and dams to power mills that produced cornmeal and flour, lumber, paper and cotton.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 3 May 2024
  • The combustible black rock found deep in the ground had literally powered the Industrial Revolution.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 4 Feb. 2025
  • This is because wars happen where people live, and the world has been urbanizing since the Industrial Revolution.
    — David Kilcullen, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The lessons from the Industrial Revolution are still relevant.
    — Daniel Schwartz, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Before the Industrial Revolution took hold in farming, the untouched prairie grasses created a web of roots that could grow as deep as two feet into the ground.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 31 May 2025
  • When the Industrial Revolution took place in 1760, millions of people lost their jobs.
    — Ankit Pathak, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Its roots can be traced back to the Industrial Revolution and the labor movement activists of the late 19th century.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 23 July 2025
  • Just as during the Industrial Revolution, a more just future begins with workers resisting against the abuses of the present.
    — Nathan Schneider, The Conversation, 26 May 2026
  • Just as during the Industrial Revolution, a more just future begins with workers resisting against the abuses of the present.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 May 2026
  • The pamphlet reflected on the destruction wrought by the Industrial Revolution on the lives of workers.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
  • But in the near term, working during the Industrial Revolution was kind of dangerous and miserable.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • That’s the story of the Industrial Revolution.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • American unions were born in the factories of the Industrial Revolution.
    — James Felton Keith, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The planet has already warmed by more than 1 degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 June 2024
  • The European region and all its economies boomed after the Industrial Revolution, too. Ironically, the trend of wealth transfer has reversed in some ways.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune Europe, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Ever since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, economic output has grown in lockstep with carbon emissions.
    — Justin Worland, TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The fabric, which sprung up with the Industrial Revolution in England, has since become the basic building block of men’s shirting.
    — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Since the Industrial Revolution, a human steroid is sitting on top of the naturally-varying climate.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

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