How to Use the Industrial Revolution in a Sentence

the Industrial Revolution

noun

• Think back to the onset of the internet or even the Industrial Revolution.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
• The new study can’t explain the exact role pollution had in the artistic trends of the Industrial Revolution.
  — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
• The fabric was found preserved in a peat bog and predates the Industrial Revolution.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
• By the mid-1700s, with the Industrial Revolution in the global north, a more mechanistic view of the world began to emerge, and the line between living things and machines began to blur.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2022
• According to Marie Claire, the rule regarding colors worn throughout the year can be traced back to the late 19th century, about the time of the Industrial Revolution.
  — Jordan Green, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2024
• Not since the Industrial Revolution has the nature of work undergone such intense and rapid change.
  — Julia Hobsbawm, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2023
• Global inequality began to rise at the start of the Industrial Revolution and peaked during the Cold War.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2023
• Los Angeles has been a haven for transplants and immigrants since the tail end of the Industrial Revolution and the introduction of the railroad.
  — Diana Ruzova, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• That understanding stretches back more than 200 years to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
  — Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• Until the Industrial Revolution, life expectancy was about 30 years or so, and people died of wars, of famines, of genocides, of plagues, of disasters.
  — Carrie Rubinstein, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• But in the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution produced a class of people who were neither rich enough not to work, nor poor enough to put up with forgoing pleasure.
  — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2023
• The effect of technology grew more pronounced with the Industrial Revolution, which led to the creation of machine guns, steamships, and radios.
  — Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024
• Some experts argued that the start of the Anthropocene could be better defined in other ways, such as the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
• Blake began writing the poem, which deals with themes of temptation and the apocalypse, in 1796, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
  — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 11 Apr. 2023
• Then came the Industrial Revolution and dams to power mills that produced cornmeal and flour, lumber, paper and cotton.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 3 May 2024
• Crutzen proposed that the epoch should begin in 1784, shortly after the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2023
• The gray scale portion of the mural represents the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the extraction of fossil fuels.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2024
• The world has warmed by a little more than 1 degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution, and the report says 2 degrees of warming would more than double the economic toll from climate change.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
• This is because wars happen where people live, and the world has been urbanizing since the Industrial Revolution.
  — David Kilcullen, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2023
• However, rates of eczema didn’t spike with the Industrial Revolution, which began around 1760.
  — Ian Myles, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• Their prey could have helped sequester the rising carbon emissions from the Industrial Revolution.
  — Benjamin Cassidy, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2024
• The planet has already warmed by more than 1 degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 June 2024
• With the arrival of the Industrial Revolution and mass production during the 19th century, tea towels, like many things, became more widely available across the pond too.
  — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2024
• Today, there are 2.5-times more methane molecules up there than there were prior to the Industrial Revolution.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• The American lemonade business began in the mid-1800s, just at the Industrial Revolution’s peak.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• Aubergine, claret, peacock blue, teal green With the Industrial Revolution came innovation in the paint industry, including the use of zinc oxide in house paint, which helped colors stay brighter longer.
  — Kristen Hartke, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• Before the Industrial Revolution put a value on the workday, our ancestors used to sleep in two chunks with a gap of a few hours in between, historical research suggests.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
• This is the ultimate big, if true, because Philippon looked at hundreds of years of data, going back to 1890, shortly after the Industrial Revolution.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
• The image of the mustache-twirling landlord as villain goes back at least to the Industrial Revolution, when popular culture made the role synonymous with coldhearted extraction from the poor.
  — Michael Friedrich, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• Curtailing the use of sanctions would be akin to the error of those who protested the Industrial Revolution by smashing textile machines: the individual may opt out, but the tool will continue to spread.
  — Edward Fishman, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024