How to Use industrial revolution in a Sentence

industrial revolution

noun

• Data may be the oil of the new industrial revolution, but there’s clearly a lot of waste and leakage going on.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2019
• The very first geologic map, made by William Smith in 1815, was made to find coal to fuel the British industrial revolution.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
• Dickens was angered by the impact of the industrial revolution on his country and its poor, and on himself in his youth.
  — John C. (chuck) Chalberg, Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
• Signal in the Noise urges artists to take note of history and embrace the next industrial revolution.
  — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 5 June 2023
• In terms of scale, think of how the industrial revolution transformed the agrarian age.
  — Ed Clendaniel, The Mercury News, 20 July 2019
• Data can drive the growth of the cannabis market, just like oil fueled the development of the industrial revolution.
  — Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2021
• The world’s oceans have soaked up nearly a third of humans’ greenhouse gas emissions since the industrial revolution.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 May 2023
• The whole economic premise of Fordism was that the laborers who powered the late industrial revolution, who built the cars, should also be able to afford them.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
• These trends cannot be reversed, any more than the industrial revolution or the emergence of computers.
  — Arjun Appadurai, Time, 19 May 2020
• The timing was no coincidence: Britain had reached the peak of the industrial revolution.
  — Krzysztof Pelc, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023
• Those who came before us ensured that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution and of modern invention.
  — Philip B. Russell, The Mercury News, 19 July 2019
• But the number of species that have disappeared since the beginning of the industrial revolution has caused a crisis that some refer to as the sixth mass extinction event.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2022
• Land use practices that began in the colonial era gave way to the industrial revolution in Europe, leading to the exploitation of resources around the world, De Silva said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2023
• Prior to the industrial revolution, these trees formed endless stands in the Eastern forests of North America.
  — Paul Robbins, Scientific American, 15 June 2021
• Rock climbers, hikers, and families also visit the historic coal region, which is still home to many of the mining structures from the heyday of the industrial revolution and war-boom of the early 1900s.
  — Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2021
• So this is 3000 times more impact than the industrial revolution.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2020
• Another dinner in August will honor the industrial revolution and the turn of the century in the early 1900s.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2022
• Head of Sales - Sparking a sustainable industrial revolution that transforms how the world is made.
  — Christine Bailey, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• Machines of the late industrial revolution, around the middle of the 19th century, made cloth and paper much easier to produce.
  — Alice Bell, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
• Fish and chips in their current form date from the 1870s, as the industrial revolution allowed for the invention of steam-trawling boats, ice machines and a wider supply of rail links to bring abundant supplies of fish from the North Sea to England.
  — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• The birthplace of the industrial revolution is in dire need of innovation.
  — Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 13 June 2023
• But, the industrial revolution didn’t happen overnight, nor did Uber or Amazon.
  — Ryan Gottfried, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
• Britain was burning coal in centuries before the industrial revolution, again, on a smaller scale.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2023
• Like many industries, fueling is a traditional one — with roots that go all the way back to the industrial revolution.
  — Jocelyn Sexton, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• While the world as a whole benefited from the big changes brought by the industrial revolution or globalization, some people were left behind.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 24 Apr. 2021
• In fact, the rate of sea-level rise has quadrupled since the industrial revolution, as climate scientists pointed out years ago when Koonin made this same argument.
  — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 1 June 2021
• The history of the eight-hour workday dates back to the industrial revolution, when it was introduced as a way to protect factory workers from the exhaustion and strain of extra-long shifts.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2021
• However, the figures show much of the carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere was released by rich countries that were the first to burn coal, oil and gas when the industrial revolution really got going in the 1850s.
  — Seth Borenstein, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022
• Long before the industrial revolution began, farmers were emitting carbon by turning over the peat to plant crops.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
• The law comes shortly after the UK went two whole weeks without burning coal for electricity, the longest stretch without coal since the industrial revolution.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 27 June 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024