How to Use cottage industry in a Sentence

cottage industry

noun

• Ranking the world’s health care is something of a cottage industry.
  — David Oshinsky, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2020
• 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
• There’s a cottage industry bidding for such trademarks.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2020
• Over the years, Longshore’s art has become something of a cottage industry.
  — John Stanton | Gambit Editor, NOLA.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• And yet a lot of discussion and a cottage industry of self-help advice around mental health acts as if humans are brains suspended in vats.
  — Colette Shade, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2020
• Just like for used phones, a cottage industry is emerging to resell old Apple and Samsung watches.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2020
• Sad to say, a cottage industry feeds off the concept of intergenerational warfare.
  — Chris Farrell, Star Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020
• In a normal year, the coaching carousel is its own cottage industry, weaving together the interests of search firms, agents, news media and boosters.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2020
• Computer technology has destroyed what used to be a very lucrative cottage industry.
  — Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 17 June 2024
• Naturally, these changes have impacted the cottage industry that surrounds red carpet dressing.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2020
• Small private companies like Broc-Reyes’ are stepping in, creating a new and growing cottage industry.
  — NBC News, 11 Oct. 2020
• Most Hill County honey producers operate at the cottage industry level and sell their goods online and at area farmers markets.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 30 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Since the dot-com crash of 2000, bubble-hunting has become its own cottage industry.
  — Zachary Karabell, Time, 8 Mar. 2021
• 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 cruelty bred other cruelties, like the cottage industry of hustlers that emerged to take advantage of parents’ desperation.
  — Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024

Last Updated: 19 Aug 2024