How to Use cottage industry in a Sentence

cottage industry

noun

• There’s now a cottage industry of people who do startup consulting.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2018
• An entire cottage industry has sprung up around the justice in recent years, complete with mugs, T-shirts, songs and even children's books.
  — Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 22 Jan. 2018
• There is an entire cottage industry of draftniks who need to do little other than master the language to sound important.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• The tension between schools and parents has created a cottage industry for lawyers and advocates.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2018
• All of this confusion has created a cottage industry of specialized accountants who can keep traders out of tax trouble.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2018
• After treatment, a cottage industry of sober-living houses and coaches is available to keep executives on track.
  — Paul Sullivan, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
• Tiny house living has been all the rage the past few years, and has given rise to an entire cottage industry of small space decorating hacks and design ideas, but what about skinny house living?
  — Becca Endicott, ELLE Decor, 8 Feb. 2018
• Once considered a bedroom community, Homewood began to stand on its own with a lively one-of-a-kind retail and cottage industry.
  — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• On the left, a thriving cottage industry for social-justice lawsuits uses identity-group quotas to sue employers for disparate impact.
  — Frederick M. Hess and, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018
• And the growing obsession with the keto diet is giving birth to a cottage industry, as companies try to cater to Keto enthusiasts.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2018
• Its success has also given way to a cottage industry of businesses that specialize in assembling Ikea furniture.
  — Abha Bhattarai, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2018
• Such are the pronouncements, prognostications and thunderings of a blizzard of annual reports issued this time of year by a cottage industry of trend-spotters.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Meanwhile, a cottage industry of cell phone storage crept up at businesses near schools, costing families.
  — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 26 June 2024
• To tap into this fanatical consumer interest in ASMR and slime, a cottage industry is emerging.
  — Nicole Gull McElroy, WIRED, 13 July 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024