How to Use sweatshop in a Sentence

sweatshop

noun

• There’s a sweatshop feel from the days when the place was a textile mill.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Sep. 2020
• The doors to stairwells and exits at the sweatshop were locked.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 16 Jan. 2022
• The sweatshop owners locked the door every night from the outside.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
• And, in the nineties, Nike faced a boycott over its reliance on sweatshop labor.
  — James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• Fievel is sold to a sweatshop by Warren T. Rat, a cat disguised as a rat.
  — Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
• Her father, a tailor, found work in a sweatshop and died when Stella was 2.
  — Andrew Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2021
• Zara has long been accused of using slave labor and sweatshops to make their clothes.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 3 Nov. 2017
• If your leggings are recycled but were sewn in a sweatshop, how is that progress?
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2021
• Her mother was a garment worker, who toiled away in a sweatshop.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 12 July 2021
• Her mother had been in New York for the past few months, working in a sweatshop to save enough money to retrieve her daughter.
  — USA Today, 10 Aug. 2020
• The exposure of the sweatshop was initially a scary prospect, Clinton said.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2023
• And there’s no information on how to take care of yourself in a garment sweatshop.
  — Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2020
• There was what was essentially a sweatshop in the basement.
  — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 12 May 2021
• As a child, Sheikh worked up to 20 hours a day in a sweatshop in Nepal stitching fabric that would become clothes sold to consumers unaware of their true cost.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 23 May 2023
• My all time favorites are about child labor at Apple’s iPod sweatshops.
  — Leander Kahney, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2007
• Su and her team sued the workers’ captors, as well as the manufacturers and retailers of the clothes produced in the sweatshop.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• Brown is at pains to note that the sweatshop manager Frank, played with passion and ferment by Patrick Andrews, is far from a perfect man.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017
• Lilibeth, forced to travel to town to settle debts, leaves María to fend for herself at a sweatshop where children sort garbage for resale.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 12 Sep. 2022
• In bygone days, children in the U.S. toiled in factories, mills, sweatshops, farms, and mines; now, many are still out in the fields or roaming construction sites.
  — Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, 15 May 2018
• How does being a politician compare to being an artist and sweatshop overlord?
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
• The scene is reminiscent of countless sweatshops across Asia.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• The film looks at how the young man’s dreams of becoming a soccer star are shattered when he’s smuggled into the U.S. and sold to a sweatshop in downtown Los Angeles.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
• Krux takes up several floors of a brick building at the base of South Park, a onetime place of sweatshops that has filled with start-ups and venture capitalists.
  — Quentin Hardy, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2016
• Her mother worked in New York City sweatshops, where her duties included sewing beads on ladies’ purses.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2017
• Less than 2% of women working in Bangladesh sweatshops for fast fashion retailers earn a living wage.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2020
• They weren’t locked away in some sweatshop, but bound by their own powerlessness in restaurants visited by many thousands of customers over the years.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• God bless these child actors talking about feminazis and sweatshops.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 10 Dec. 2017
• The Morning Show,’ a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing — made by a company that runs sweatshops in China.
  — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2020
• Children start appearing in sweatshops because both parents are working there and have no means of childcare support.
  — Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
• The term fast fashion brings to mind factories spitting out enormous volumes of clothing using cheap fabric and sweatshop labor.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024