How to Use cottage industry in a Sentence

cottage industry

noun

• 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
• 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
• In Barbados, most products made from the fruit are produced for home use or on a cottage industry scale.
  — Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• The race to integrate patient data has spawned a cottage industry of its own.
  — Reza Amin, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• There is an entire cottage industry around the British royals and their lives, public and private.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
• Over the last two decades, documentaries about the late Tupac Shakur have become a cottage industry of sorts.
  — Grant Rindner, Billboard, 18 Apr. 2023
• There is also a cottage industry of those looking to profit from the notoriety of the case.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
• The fusion of rock and hip-hop that Red Hot Chili Peppers had pioneered for over a decade was a multi-platinum cottage industry by the late ‘90s.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 1 Apr. 2022
• But only one of these three supports a cottage industry of gravedancing, and that’s crypto.
  — Miller Whitehouse-Levine, Fortune, 6 July 2022
• From the nineteen-fifties through the seventies, short films were a national cottage industry in France.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
• The surge in interest has also spawned a cottage industry of entrepreneurs, many of them women.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
• Ego-stroking bio docs being a cottage industry these days, Balvin is one of the more disarmingly open figures to get this kind of treatment.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
• The business of ketamine & risks The surge in demand for ketamine therapy has paved the way for a cottage industry of ketamine clinics.
  — Laura Newberrystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• In certain precincts, the verdict about the smash hit that has spawned a cottage industry of spin-offs is in — the show is about whiteness, and particularly white grievance.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 2 Jan. 2023
• Nintendo has built a cottage industry out of reselling its classics over and over again.
  — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2021
• With just more than a week to go before the 2022 NFL draft, the mock draft cottage industry has already been hard at work projecting which top college prospects will get taken in the first round.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2022
• What started out that way became a huge cottage industry.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2023
• There was even a cottage industry of actresses willing to play the role of the other woman for couples who wanted a divorce on the grounds of adultery.
  — April White, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• There was a small cottage industry on Twitter of people insisting that Putin was ill.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 July 2023
• The weight-loss properties of semaglutides have made demand so fervent that a cottage industry of start-ups now claims to be able to skirt the medical red tape for access to the drugs.
  — Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2023
• In places such as Tijuana, a cottage industry emerged around the sale of counterfeit license plates.
  — Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2021
• Drug busts for heroin and methamphetamine sustain a humming cottage industry of lawyers and bail bonds services.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• Selling fake, blank cards has become a cottage industry in some corners of the internet.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2021
• At the turn of the millennium, audiobooks were closer to a cottage industry than a mass medium.
  — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024