How to Use cannery in a Sentence

cannery

noun

• The Chiao brothers learned of cannery work the hard way.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2021
• When Muir last sailed through in 1899, this spot held a salmon cannery and a few shacks.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2018
• The source of any fraud would’ve likely happened at the cannery.
  — cleveland, 23 June 2021
• Many of the farmers had come to San Pedro in the 1960s to work the tuna fleets, docks and canneries.
  — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
• The tide rises underneath the cannery, lifting the purse seine boats tied to the pier.
  — Anjuli Grantham, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Sep. 2017
• The women at our house worked in the cannery and, afterward, at home.
  — Kirmen Uribe, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
• The cannery docks were devoid of life in the afternoon heat.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2020
• Chicken of the Sea built a cannery near the harbor, closing it in the early 2000s because the catch was too small.
  — Vera Castaneda, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
• The first cannery came to Homer in 1939, meaning there were boats fishing for salmon before that, Mitchell said.
  — Elizabeth Earl, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2019
• San Diego was once called the tuna capital of the world, but by the 1960s the fleet had shrunk and some tuna canneries closed.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• So, some women were able to get work in vegetable canneries, or even some of the work came into the camps.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
• Commercial fishing here began with the opening of the first cannery in the 1880s.
  — Miranda Weiss, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2021
• Save your burlap for transporting potatoes and leave the mason jars at the cannery.
  — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2017
• At one point, a group dressed in a cannery’s worth of fishnets goes to what looks like the Temple of Dendur room at the Met to dance in a fountain.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 9 Aug. 2020
• The land was fertile and well-tended, the waters held plenty of fish, and a lobster cannery opened in 1860 to process the glut of crustaceans.
  — Sara B. Franklin, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2020
• Of course, that opens up a whole cannery of cans of worms, ethical and emotional.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2021
• There are a few locals still scratching out some pounds, but the out-of-towners and the cannery workers are mostly gone.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2021
• The women staffed the cannery, which never slept, producing 30 tons of product a day.
  — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
• Carlos landed in Kodiak in 1983 and got a start working in the cannery.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018
• Both are accessed via ferry from Rockland, a onetime cannery town that’s now a food and art hot spot.
  — Will Grunewald, Outside Online, 18 June 2020
• At one point in the late 1800s, six turtle canneries operated along the Texas coast.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
• His father worked in a cannery, among other jobs, and for a year the family lived in a nearby railroad boxcar.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
• Arthur was a horse trader, and while attending school, Smith worked with him — and in canneries and on farms — throughout her childhood.
  — Jillian Steinhauer, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• My son is one of the managers of a restaurant in what was once a cannery; a section of the floor is made of glass bricks so that customers can watch the sea lions lolling on the pilings below.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Packed with locals, the decor is industrial, a reflection of the eatery’s former life as a cannery.
  — Peter Cheng, Los Angeles Magazine, 23 Apr. 2018
• But the first cannery on the river opened in 1866, and many more followed, fed by diabolical fish wheels that scooped millions of pounds of fish a year from the water.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• In another instance, a setnetter was caught on the cannery dock between stacks of fish totes.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Aug. 2019
• More than 40 years later, a third-hand account claimed the stranger was no more than a stowaway with area cannery experience.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2022
• Once a center of fur trading and canneries, Astoria’s historic homes still stand, and the town almost seems lost in time.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023
• When Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas was a boy in the 1980s, his grandmother would walk him and his brother to the store for ice cream before heading to her night shift at a local cannery.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024