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Example sentences for "factory"

Lexicographically close words:
factly; facto; factor; factories; factors; factotum; factours; facts; factual; factum
  1. The sugar factory at Tlumacz and the tobacco factory at Winniki are amongst the largest establishments of their kind in Austria.

  2. There is a linen-weaving factory at Oughterard.

  3. Their factory has a frontage on Canal and Champlain streets, of over three hundred feet.

  4. In May, 1867, the firm commenced the erection of a match factory which was ready for operation in September of that year.

  5. In the succeeding year, he rebuilt the warehouse and factory on a greatly enlarged scale, and has since still further enlarged and improved the buildings, until, in size and commodiousness, they are not excelled in the city.

  6. His health failing through the severity of this labor, his parents took him from this factory and placed him in another factory, for the manufacture of cotton batting and wadding, in West Stockbridge.

  7. Among other things he started a chair factory and a tannery, and his active mind was always revolving projects for the increase of business, and, of course, of business profits.

  8. Humiston was taken from school and put to earn his living with a neighbor, with whom he remained a year, and was then placed to work in a cotton factory at Stockbridge, Mass.

  9. The factory has two hundred feet front on Leonard and Voltaire streets, with a depth of sixty feet, and five stories high; attached to the main building are the engine and boiler rooms.

  10. Cleveland the character of a manufacturing city, having invested largely in the white lead factory of this city, which is under the management of Mr. J.

  11. The owners of the factory wasted no time in fruitless sorrow.

  12. The daily capacity of the factory is two hundred and ninety gross, which, if run to the full capacity throughout the year, would yield to the United States government a revenue of over a hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

  13. In connection with his partners, he erected a factory on the Newburg road, the capacity of which was about fifty-six barrels of crude oil per day.

  14. The Colt Firearms factory is in the southeast part of the city, and near it is the handsome Church of the Good Shepherd, erected in memory of Colonel Colt, inventor of the revolver, by his wife.

  15. The old tapestry factory still turns out beautiful work, as do the potteries at Moncloa.

  16. And the thousand employees went back saying they would run the factory themselves.

  17. Even if it could take the time off, and if five thousand hands in a factory all devoted themselves all day to understanding the work the Office is doing, the five thousand would make poor work of understanding.

  18. Then when we have democracy working in a thousand factories, we will advertise and transplant our working democracy, our factory democracies, abroad.

  19. This is what the President of the factory not a thousand miles away accomplished all in twenty-four hours by not being fooled about himself.

  20. In the factory that listened to Jim, no order from a national Collective Bargaining Works could have begun to meet the situation as well as Jim did and the factory did.

  21. This was the first meeting that pulled the factory together.

  22. No one could conceive now of getting a strike in edgewise to the factory that listened to Jim.

  23. One factory in ten, if necessary, could be selected for national discipline.

  24. A factory in which the workmen merely work for wages, cannot hope to compete with a factory fitted up with picked men proud of their work.

  25. Of course with both sides in a factory in this way pursuing the other side and asking it to help it not to be fooled, everything everybody says counts.

  26. What he knew about the "single tax" enabled him to plan a sure approach to the mind of the factory owner.

  27. Sidenote: Proving A Need] Contrast with this illustration the case of an efficiency engineer who secured his chance to overhaul a factory by demonstrating to a manufacturer that he needed a new order-checking system.

  28. Only a cur lay in the sun, and some dirty ducks squittered the water in a dirty ditch which carried off the drainage of the factory to a neighbouring brook.

  29. For a year Roger rode from factory to mine, from coffee plantation to the fields and sheds where pineapples were grown, cut, and canned.

  30. Every saw-mill, grist-mill or factory in our land usually has its dam in an adjacent stream to insure a fair supply of water: but none of these can be properly considered general precautions against drought.

  31. It was composed of all sorts and conditions of men, from bankers and brokers of Wall Street to the humble factory and mill hands from up the river and beyond.

  32. He enforced what was known as the Factory Law, and the owners of the "sweat-shops" had to seek larger and more sanitary quarters for their employees.

  33. The men quarreled good-naturedly over which factory could really claim the Little Giant.

  34. He had been given the position of acting foreman of the new patent leather factory only because of his long term of service with the company.

  35. All the patent leathers--both patent kid and patent calf--have a factory all to themselves.

  36. It seemed to Peter that he had never dreamed there were so many creatures in the whole world until he began to handle the shipments of hides that came to the factory to be tanned.

  37. I bet if he ever comes to the patent leather factory and I get the chance I will take some of the starch out of him," Tolman had been heard to declare.

  38. In consequence sentiment throughout the factory slowly turned in their favor.

  39. This was their first day in the new factory and as the boys took up the novel task of learning how to make embossed leathers he made the inward resolve that every penny he earned there should be put into the bank toward a motorcycle for Nat.

  40. Why, when I began work in the beamhouse of Factory 1 I thought I never could endure it.

  41. As the hammering that had for so long echoed through the factory ceased queries concerning the noise and the mission of the carpenters died away.

  42. To-day an unusually large quantity of stock was sunning on the racks, and it would take the united efforts of all hands to get it under cover before the approaching storm reached the factory yards.

  43. Instead they worked throughout the year in the beamhouse and the different finishing departments of Factory 2.

  44. We'll need the other engine, if the factory is on fire," commented Cole, who was beginning to lose his breath as the swift pace was kept up.

  45. If the factory gets going it'll be the worst fire we ever had in this town!

  46. They had learned much from their experience at the box factory blaze, which was liable to stand them in good stead at future fires.

  47. Needham's factory was one where boxes for various purposes were made, and it was filled with inflammable material.

  48. The factory is the nearest building to the alarm box," said Bert, "but of course the using of that box doesn't mean that the factory is on fire.

  49. Fortunately there were no more, and, though the factory was badly damaged, the larger part of it was saved.

  50. Then, he was instructed more broadly in business methods, with the purpose of making him competent when he should become a manager of the projected factory in the Blue Ridge region.

  51. His alert business imagination saw that a factory located at the source of supply would be advantageous.

  52. Mr. Gandhi has a great personal hold over the factory workers, especially in Western India.

  53. India has had her own representation at international labour conferences, and the Government of India is now engaged on a new Factory Act in accordance with the draft covenants and recommendations of the Washington Conference.

  54. The Indian factory operative has not yet ceased to be a man of the country rather than of the town.

  55. Factory legislation has never been neglected in India, though until recently the chief impulse has had to proceed from Government itself.

  56. In that entire factory there was for me but one completely lucid spot.

  57. How many men are working in your factory now?

  58. She also did factory work in English industries and there acquired first hand knowledge of the industrial position of women.

  59. A huge labor demonstration on the picket line late in February brought women wage earners from office and factory throughout the Eastern States.

  60. He explained that in order to sell it he must first get permission from the factory people, who held the mortgage.

  61. The factory then closes down, and it is moved away to another location.

  62. Neither do I desire to deny the evils of slavery, any more than I would deny the evils of the factory system in England, or the factory and apprenticeship system in our own country.

  63. The factory in the Faubourg St. Antoine, where he was employed, had been compelled to close its doors.

  64. I found there some old people, the foreman of a neighboring factory and his wife, who had been living in the house for nearly twenty-five years.

  65. He was at this time chief accountant in a large factory of the Faubourg St. Antoine, with a salary of four thousand Francs a year.

  66. For the origin of such a mass of hopeless poverty, we must look to the miseries of the early factory times, and the oppressive pressure of capital on labour, only slowly being counteracted by legislation.

  67. The origin of this class is directly due to the incoming of the factory system and the specialisation of industry.

  68. The surrounding country is famous for its celery, and the city is an important manufacturing centre, ranking third among the cities of the state in the value of its factory products in 1904.

  69. There is a large beet-sugar factory at Garden City, Finney county.

  70. In July, 1609, their ship the Red Lion arrived in that port and, favoured by Foyne Sama, they succeeded in obtaining from the shogun leave to establish a factory and to send one or more ships annually from Europe.

  71. Captain Brower had disappeared from the Dutch factory to make room for Jacob Speck.

  72. William Eaton and Edmund Sayers[20] were with the factory from first to last.

  73. Nothing eventful occurred at the factory in the early part of 1618.

  74. The rest of the story of the English factory is soon told.

  75. Two others joined the factory at a later date.

  76. The merchandise which stocked the factory consisted chiefly of broad cloth and woollen and cotton piece goods; also of Bantam pepper, gunpowder, lead, tin, etc.

  77. After Saris's departure, however, the English factory lost no time in attempting to establish trade in the country.

  78. It reached the English factory at Bantam probably early in 1612; but the idea of opening trade with Japan had already been entertained in England.

  79. But the re-occupation of our factory was often proposed and more than once attempted.

  80. Every watch is perfect before leaving the factory and is tested a few days in our office before being sent away.

  81. And who would believe it possible that there was a large factory full of women who earned their living by making dolls' shoes.

  82. Becca and Abe became also installed in the house as helpers; and now, far away from the regions of factory whews, they are all living amicably together.

  83. It was not until the middle of the eighteenth century, however, that the German factory entirely ceased.

  84. Another adventurer named Mendez Pinto spent years in China and in 1548 established a factory near Yokohama, Japan.

  85. A rich Zealand merchant had a factory at Archangel and a regular trade into the White Sea.


  86. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "factory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    armory; arsenal; boatyard; brewery; dairy; distillery; dockyard; factory; mill; mint; plant; pottery; refinery; sawmill; shipyard; tannery; winery; yard


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    factory girl; factory legislation; factory work