How to Use cottage industry in a Sentence

cottage industry

noun

• 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
• Meanwhile, the prevalence of smart phones has spawned a parking cottage industry in the last few years.
  — Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 5 Nov. 2017
• 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
• Yet the search for returnees has spurred a thriving cottage industry.
  — David Ramli, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 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
• Over the years, Longshore’s art has become something of a cottage industry.
  — John Stanton | Gambit Editor, NOLA.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• And the mustache just turned into this cottage industry.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
• Since the dot-com crash of 2000, bubble-hunting has become its own cottage industry.
  — Zachary Karabell, Time, 8 Mar. 2021
• There will always be a cottage industry and the rage industry.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 14 May 2018
• The race to integrate patient data has spawned a cottage industry of its own.
  — Reza Amin, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• By the 1970s, there was a cottage industry explaining to women what was holding them back.
  — Gail Russell Chaddock, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2020
• There is an entire cottage industry around the British royals and their lives, public and private.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
• Over the last two decades, documentaries about the late Tupac Shakur have become a cottage industry of sorts.
  — Grant Rindner, Billboard, 18 Apr. 2023
• There is also a cottage industry of those looking to profit from the notoriety of the case.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
• Lawrence herself is a superfan of the Bravo universe, which has spawned a cottage industry out of middle-aged women behaving badly (and the people who love/hate them).
  — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 21 June 2024
• An end to the shortage would require some substantial pivots within this booming cottage industry.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024