How to Use postindustrial in a Sentence

postindustrial

adjective

• Even in our postindustrial age, there remains something charged about a work that bears the mark of the artist’s hand.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• In his telling, the prehistoric and the postindustrial have much in common.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
• Penned in 2019, the play is prismatic, set across several postindustrial cities in the North of England, where Stephens (and I) were born.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2022
• Eventually, almost two decades ago, the red brick shell of the school on this scuffed postindustrial city’s east side was abandoned.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
• On the banks of the Delaware River, Trenton is a postindustrial city that’s been buffeted by bad news for decades.
  — Julie Besonen, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• Hip-hop, an insurgent art form with roots in postindustrial cities in the aftermath of the civil-rights movement, was thriving.
  — Imani Perry, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2023
• In the postindustrial age, the community has hollowed, leading to poverty and crime.
  — cleveland, 4 Nov. 2022
• That is until, abruptly, the quaintness gives way to a more eclectic quilt of neighborhoods that could be any postindustrial city of the American Northeast.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2022
• Ask any Londoner about wandering amid the postindustrial squalor of Southwark in the late 1980s and you will be regaled by stories of taking life into your own hands.
  — Reif Larsen, New York Times, 18 July 2017
• Oh, and one open-air venue that really gets it right — vibrant mural art, a cool postindustrial setting, lively food and drinks — is Centro/Vivir (1414 NE.
  — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
• People who have lived through and are living the aftermath of the decline of the American city and postindustrial capitalism.
  — Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 14 Sep. 2017
• An empty bank lobby becomes the drawing room of a postindustrial castle.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Republic, 15 May 2020
• Edith Schloss’s memoir recalls a world of spacious, postindustrial studios filled with even bigger ideas about how to reform modern art.
  — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2021
• The pattern of Conservatives doing better in postindustrial towns in the north of England and Labour doing better in major cities held.
  — Amanda Ferguson and Karla Adam, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2022
• But in the working class remade and discarded for the postindustrial age, there is an uptick in drug abuse, one-parent families, and indebtedness.
  — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2020
• The postindustrial port city sits along the nation’s busiest trading corridor, a region expected to see massive growth in coming years.
  — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 30 July 2019
• One way of thinking of postindustrial America is to imagine it as a former rat park, slowly converting into a rat cage.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
• Yet, by some measures, the housewives of the postindustrial age did more housework than their preindustrial equivalents.
  — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
• Like other postindustrial cities, Detroit has been trying to solve joblessness for decades.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2018
• The Twin Cities, in particular, seem to have been granted an exemption from the postindustrial malaise that has defined other Midwestern cities.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• There’s something of a military-postindustrial-complex feel to this disconcerting show, which seems spot-on for the anxieties of life today.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• Pittsburgh has shed its reputation as a grim, postindustrial city in the past decade and emerged as a destination for culinary delight, the arts, and natural beauty in the former Rust Belt.
  — Hal B. Klein, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2021
• But China thinks postindustrial economies, having contributed more to global warming in the long term than less developed economies, should be cajoled to cut emissions first.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2021
• From boom to bust Americans are used to having products and services one click away - a society often described as postindustrial and knowledge-based.
  — Tony Schmitz, The Conversation, 4 Jan. 2023
• From boom to bust Americans are used to having products and services one click away – a society often described as postindustrial and knowledge-based.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2023
• Yet even this toxic broth supports an ecosystem of a sort, offering a key insight into how nature responds to human impact and a glimmer of hope as to how life might adapt to a postindustrial world.
  — Cal Flyn, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• Today, the Scott resembles a postindustrial sacrifice zone, its once lush floodplain buried under heaps of mine tailings.
  — Ben Goldfarb, Science | AAAS, 7 June 2018
• His criminal history harkens back to a darker time in Boston, when the city was struggling through postindustrial malaise, racial strife and a shrinking population.
  — Jennifer Levitz, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
• Image All three are small, postindustrial towns whose traditional industries — steel, silk and carpets — have declined in the men’s lifetimes.
  — Andrzej Lukowski, New York Times, 25 May 2018
• Then, about 15 years ago, the Fed partnered with a host of institutions in midsized, postindustrial New England cities to figure out how to bring back economic vitality.
  — Jeff Fuhrer, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024