How to Use cottage industry in a Sentence

cottage industry

noun

• Yet the search for returnees has spurred a thriving cottage industry.
  — David Ramli, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2018
• Meanwhile, the prevalence of smart phones has spawned a parking cottage industry in the last few years.
  — Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 5 Nov. 2017
• And the mustache just turned into this cottage industry.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
• Inside the unlikely—and audacious—cottage industry that’s cashing in on one of them.
  — Peter Elkind, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2017
• There’s a cottage industry of social media pundits who continue to insist that Wentz isn’t very good.
  — Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• An end to the shortage would require some substantial pivots within this booming cottage industry.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 12 July 2024
• Does the country really need a cottage industry of private testers and verifiers to help Americans get through the day?
  — Rajesh D. Nayak, Slate Magazine, 22 Dec. 2017
• Such concerns have spawned a cottage industry of stickers and accessories for concealing laptop cameras.
  — Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 9 Jan. 2018
• Travel groups and websites have made a cottage industry of listing how to avoid potential trouble in the UAE.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
• That has created a cottage industry of online companies that help people establish their pet as an emotional support animal.
  — David Koenig, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• All this reflects a cottage industry striving to imbue every last household appliance or wearable item with connectivity.
  — Matt O'Brien and Ryan Nakashima, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2018
• How your pain as a fan is somehow different or more severe than another person’s (Boston, for example, has made a lucrative cottage industry out of this).
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• On the one hand, this huge cottage industry was how Nizar found out about the Spinosaurus fossil in the first place.
  — National Geographic, 24 Nov. 2020
• The style has sold out tens of times on Le Specs’s site and spawned a cottage industry of knockoffs.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 5 June 2018
• Kiper and McShay make a year-round cottage industry of their mock drafts.
  — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 25 Apr. 2018
• The last two constitute a cottage industry in themselves, such is the gush of books about them.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
• The trend has spurred a cottage industry of retailers catering to the ask.
  — Andrew Zucker, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• The secret to success is hard work—or so says the cottage industry made by a million self-help books.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2022
• The pandemic has caused an entire cottage industry to spring up around the concept of the home gym.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• And a cottage industry of podcasts, as well as fan and gossip accounts have sprung up to serve them.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
• In fact, a whole cottage industry has erupted with goods for weddings that feel on-brand to a couple’s theme and style.
  — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 2 June 2021
• Ranking the world’s health care is something of a cottage industry.
  — David Oshinsky, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2020
• This is the fruit of a new cottage industry of anti-anti-racist entrepreneurs.
  — Max B. Sawicky, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2021
• There was a cottage industry and these little blogs that would make these fake news stories.
  — NBC News, 1 Jan. 2023
• Rotenberg’s videos are but a small sliver of the cottage industry that is the Troom Troom reaction video.
  — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 12 Nov. 2018
• Now, Cahn says, this cottage industry is keen to find a way into classrooms.
  — Will Knight, Wired, 5 June 2020
• That firm created a cottage industry that thrives to this day.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 16 May 2018
• Or the cottage industry of elite tutors who can teach to tests or the art of crafting the perfect admissions essay?
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
• In Barbados, most products made from the fruit are produced for home use or on a cottage industry scale.
  — Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Meanwhile, a cottage industry of cell phone storage crept up at businesses near schools, costing families.
  — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 26 June 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024