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Example sentences for "tanneries"

Lexicographically close words:
tannage; tannages; tannate; tanned; tanner; tanners; tannery; tannic; tannin; tanning
  1. A light salting is also useful for a short preservation, and is becoming common in hide markets and tanneries during the summer and autumn months.

  2. Instead of "handling" the goods from pit to pit, modern tanneries aim at moving the liquors.

  3. A good illustration of this "speeding up" in modern tanneries is the adoption by all large factories of much more rapid methods of extracting tannin.

  4. To-day all large tanneries have qualified chemists, and it is realized that they are the practical tanners.

  5. Most tanneries now carry this out in a systematic way, so as to ensure regularity in the process.

  6. Despite the lack of railway communication, the town is a considerable industrial centre, with large iron-works, tanneries and manufactories of paper, chocolate and oil.

  7. Industries include the manufacture of cotton and woollen goods, and there are iron foundries, breweries, tanneries and large railway works.

  8. Cotton and silk weaving is also largely carried on, and there are numerous indigo vats, tanneries and an English cigar factory.

  9. There is a harbour at Castro, and steam flour-mills, foundries and tanneries have been established.

  10. There are also tanneries and flour mills.

  11. Tanneries and the manufacture of boots, gloves, leather, overcoats, iron castings and machinery are the chief industries.

  12. There are cotton, flax and linen mills, engineering and chemical works, distilleries, tanneries and paper mills.

  13. The narrow streets smell of tanneries and less wholesome nuisances, not a breath of fresh pure air is to be had from one end of the town to the other.

  14. Our chemists are making these cigars now out of the refuse of the tanneries and glue factories.

  15. Its tanneries and cider-presses give employment and sustenance to several thousand people.

  16. The town is picturesquely disposed on the banks of the Risle, which furnishes an abundant supply of water to the tanneries which line its banks.

  17. Besides the twelve tanneries above mentioned, there are many others in the city and other places, at which the cost of manufacturing is about the same as those enumerated.

  18. Other smaller tanneries are located at Caracas, Valencia and La Guaira.

  19. There are two sizable tanneries at Maracaibo which supply the local demand for coarse leather.

  20. The trade of Launceston is chiefly agricultural, but there are tanneries and iron foundries.

  21. There are no special tanneries or processes for dressing the skins.

  22. In the first French Revolution (so Carlyle assures us) there were at Meudon tanneries of human skins.

  23. It has tanneries and distilleries, and is the centre of the trade in corn and produce of cattle for the Ural iron-works.

  24. Hilaire at the eastern corner of it, cross the water and turn sharp to the left down the Rue Foulerie, which skirts the river with its picturesque tanneries and wash-houses.

  25. The growing number of windmills, wine-presses and tanneries on the monastic properties is the index of the civilising influence of the monks.

  26. There were Tanneries at Meudon for human skins.

  27. This was in 1789: in four years more--Did you look into the Tanneries of Meudon, and the long-naked making for themselves breeches of human skins!

  28. So, to establish a system of tanneries and factories for leather goods and foot-gear will be a lucrative undertaking.

  29. The Leather Industry This will also be a new industry in China, despite the fact that there are a few tanneries in the treaty ports.

  30. Gloversville has more than a score of tanneries and leather-finishing factories, and manufactures fur goods.

  31. There are machine shops and tanneries in the town.

  32. The sumach is largely grown in the Mirdite district; its leaves are exported to Trieste for use in tanneries and dyeworks.

  33. There are also extensive breweries, tanneries and soap and oil works.

  34. Aidin is on the Smyrna-Dineir railway, has large tanneries and sweetmeat manufactories, and exports figs, cotton and raisins.

  35. Tanning and weaving were formerly the principal industries carried on in Alnwick, and in 1646 there were twenty-two tanneries there.

  36. It is a flourishing commercial place, and besides cloth and buckskin mills it has net and glove manufactories, soapworks, dyeworks, tanneries and breweries, and also carries on a considerable trade in cattle and dairy produce.

  37. The manufacturing establishments include flour mills, tanneries and manufactories of leather, cotton and woollen mills, distilleries, foundries and potteries.

  38. Its trade is chiefly in coffee, but it also possesses cigar factories, wool and cotton factories, breweries, tanneries and other industrial establishments.

  39. Its working forms the chief industry of the town, and there are also tanneries and breweries.

  40. Perhaps they did not enjoy the Elmwood tanneries quite as much as the home works at Milburn, and perhaps they longed a little for their term of service there to be completed.

  41. In through the waiting doors of the tanneries filed the men.

  42. Evidently at the Coddington tanneries there were plenty of men ready to take your chance if you were not smart enough to hold on to it yourself.

  43. It was then that notices were posted in all the tanneries saying that at noon on a certain day the president of the Coddington Company desired to meet his men in the vacant room of Factory 2.

  44. Only a small part of the hides tanned here and at the Elmwood tanneries come from our ranches.

  45. At many tanneries chrome is used almost entirely for tanning calfskins because the process is so much quicker; chrome takes but about nine hours while quebracho tanning takes two weeks or thereabouts.

  46. In the first place none of the men from the tanneries ever came to the fashionable west side of the town; there was nothing to call them there.

  47. More than one man, as the work of carrying in the skins was completed, reviewed in his mind Peter's career at the tanneries and marveled that he had not suspected the secret from the first.

  48. I shall be very forlorn while these three leather makers are rushing about among the tanneries and warehouses.

  49. Still another opportunity to write your name in golden letters across the tanneries of the world is to perfect a patent leather varnish that will dry indoors.

  50. Their work at the sole leather tanneries was interesting, too.

  51. Was not he himself one of these working men who knew what the heat, the odor, the noise of the tanneries meant?

  52. Of course we use oak and hemlock bark, though, in the sole leather tanneries over at Elmwood.

  53. Screened from view in the far corner of the big touring-car he had ridden past the tanneries and with his own eyes had seen the benches in the ball field thronged with sweltering humanity.

  54. The mining industry on which the town formerly depended is extinct, but the district is agricultural and dairy farming is carried on, while the town has flour mills, tanneries and iron foundries.

  55. This board also inspected leather at all the tanneries and the finished leather in the various factories, a course of action which resulted in great improvement in the quality of leather, particularly in leather used in shoemaking.

  56. As bark tanning is practically obsolete in the United States to-day, it was necessary to go into the tanneries and build up what was virtually a new industry.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tanneries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.