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Example sentences for "cotton mill"

  • Huh," grunted Mandy with her mouth full of biscuit, "I reckon a cotton mill'll jest about kill you.

  • Why in the world you'll pike out and go to work in a cotton mill is more than I can cipher.

  • Johnnie, you're mighty smart about some things; cain't you see that a cotton mill is bound to either kill or cripple a child?

  • But what made you think you'd like to work in a cotton mill?

  • A whaling ship would not be useful as a cotton mill; but much capital that was once invested in the whale fishery of New England has since found its way into manufacturing.

  • As the management of a cotton mill concentrates on extorting the last unit of effort from the workers, so the Unions in the past have very largely concentrated on securing that the workers at any rate got their share of the results.

  • Description of Interior of a Cotton Mill, in A Short Essay for the Service of the Proprietors of Cotton Mills and the Persons Employed in Them.

  • As we have already observed, it is well known that there has been a contagious disorder in a cotton mill in the neighbourhood of Manchester which has been fatal to many, and infected more.

  • Coal at a little over $2 per ton affords power to propel a cotton mill, which under the ordinary natural conditions attached to water power, makes it impossible to compete with steam.

  • Should a cotton mill be built in Montgomery, an ample supply of this labor would be certain to volunteer before the completion of the building.

  • We believe a careful review of her facilities will convince capitalists that she is the most available city in the South for operating a cotton mill, and that she must become sooner or later the center for cotton manufacture.

  • It has been seen how platform and press and people concentrated their interest and attention upon the "cotton mill campaign", every new factory being hailed as another banner lifted in the fight.

  • Bishop Conwell of Philadelphia, was employed in a cotton mill.

  • They were natural children, whose childhood had not been dwarfed in a cotton mill, and it was exceedingly funny to them.

  • I went to work in a cotton mill at eight years of age, and worked in that mill until I left the country to come to the United States.

  • In 1868 he came to New York, worked for a few months in a cotton mill, and in the following year came to Chicago.

  • Samuel Fielden was born in Todmorden, Lancashire, England, in 1847, and spent thirteen years of his boyhood working in a cotton mill.

  • I occupied a desk at a cotton mill office, and wrote up lists of goods in a big book, until I couldn't stand for it.

  • For a clerk at a cotton mill to tour about Canada with rich people was strange.

  • You have talent, beauty, and cultivation: I'm raw and know nothing but the cotton mill.

  • Only think--how would you feel if Ethel had to work in a cotton mill?

  • And I am in Wygant's cotton mill," said another.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cotton mill" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    better understood; cement and other construction; cotton cloth; cotton cultivation; cotton fabric; cotton fabrics; cotton field; cotton goods; cotton manufactures; cotton mills; cotton paper; cotton textiles; cotton thread; cotton wool; cotton yarn; could judge; having heard; knight should; league broad; length came; lighted candle; real kind; sandy bottom; then drew; will please; with water