How to Use prefabricate in a Sentence

prefabricate

verb
  • Also in the works is a new version of the brand’s prefabricated home, the Vipp Shelter.
    Natalia Rachlin, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Instead, parts of the bridge are prefabricated away from the site and then moved into place.
    Patricia Mazzei, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • The new buildings will be prefabricated and shipped to the site in containers.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2017
  • That second courtroom would have to be prefabricated, at a cost of $4.5 million to $6 million, and flown to Cuba, just like the first one.
    Robert Windrem, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Some parts could be prefabricated in a factory, shipped to a job site and then installed with fewer workers, the company said.
    Matthew Haag, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Allen’s donation was to jump start Sperling’s novel idea to prefabricate steel apartment modules that could be stacked like Lego blocks.
    Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2018
  • The playhouse is prefabricated offsite and can be delivered fully built or in flat-packed pieces to be constructed on-site.
    Liz Stinson, Curbed, 18 June 2019
  • Built in 1969, the plastic prefabricated home offers a glimpse into the optimism of its time, when space was a new, exciting frontier and people believed that new technologies could solve the world's problems.
    Anna Bahney, CNN, 29 Nov. 2019
  • This restaurant in Dong Hoi, Vietnam, is built entirely from bamboo parts that were prefabricated then assembled on site.
    Liz Stinson, Curbed, 13 Sep. 2018
  • Whether the houses of the future are cast, printed, or prefabricated, experts agree that change is coming, albeit gradually.
    Charlie Wood, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2017
  • Because the walkway is both elevated and prefabricated, the impact on the natural setting is minimal, one of the other missions of all the installations.
    Ondine Cohane, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
  • One of the overarching goals of Colistra’s work is to develop solutions that could be prefabricated, mass-produced, and made widely available.
    Alexandra Kirkman, SELF, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Now the market is being flooded by what Mr. Wisnefski calls shadow inventory as businesses that are normally big buyers, such as home builders and companies that prefabricate the trusses that hold up roofs and floors, sell from their own stockpiles.
    Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 15 June 2021
  • Their university had celebrated its installation five days before the collapse with officials saying they were filled with pride for seeing a 950-ton concrete bridge that was prefabricated and quickly installed over a busy six-lane highway.
    Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Like pop idols hoisted for worship, these pastors aspire toward casual majesty and achieve prefabricated fabulousness.
    Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
  • For decades, utopian designers and populist dreamers have glorified prefabricated housing.
    Julie Lasky, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018

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