How to Use postindustrial in a Sentence

postindustrial

adjective
  • Even in our postindustrial age, there remains something charged about a work that bears the mark of the artist’s hand.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • In his telling, the prehistoric and the postindustrial have much in common.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Penned in 2019, the play is prismatic, set across several postindustrial cities in the North of England, where Stephens (and I) were born.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2022
  • Eventually, almost two decades ago, the red brick shell of the school on this scuffed postindustrial city’s east side was abandoned.
    Vivian Yee, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • On the banks of the Delaware River, Trenton is a postindustrial city that’s been buffeted by bad news for decades.
    Julie Besonen, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Hip-hop, an insurgent art form with roots in postindustrial cities in the aftermath of the civil-rights movement, was thriving.
    Imani Perry, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2023
  • In the postindustrial age, the community has hollowed, leading to poverty and crime.
    cleveland, 4 Nov. 2022
  • That is until, abruptly, the quaintness gives way to a more eclectic quilt of neighborhoods that could be any postindustrial city of the American Northeast.
    New York Times, 9 July 2022
  • Ask any Londoner about wandering amid the postindustrial squalor of Southwark in the late 1980s and you will be regaled by stories of taking life into your own hands.
    Reif Larsen, New York Times, 18 July 2017
  • Oh, and one open-air venue that really gets it right — vibrant mural art, a cool postindustrial setting, lively food and drinks — is Centro/Vivir (1414 NE.
    Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
  • People who have lived through and are living the aftermath of the decline of the American city and postindustrial capitalism.
    Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 14 Sep. 2017
  • An empty bank lobby becomes the drawing room of a postindustrial castle.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Republic, 15 May 2020
  • Edith Schloss’s memoir recalls a world of spacious, postindustrial studios filled with even bigger ideas about how to reform modern art.
    Max Holleran, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The pattern of Conservatives doing better in postindustrial towns in the north of England and Labour doing better in major cities held.
    Amanda Ferguson and Karla Adam, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2022
  • But in the working class remade and discarded for the postindustrial age, there is an uptick in drug abuse, one-parent families, and indebtedness.
    Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2020
  • The postindustrial port city sits along the nation’s busiest trading corridor, a region expected to see massive growth in coming years.
    Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 30 July 2019
  • One way of thinking of postindustrial America is to imagine it as a former rat park, slowly converting into a rat cage.
    Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Yet, by some measures, the housewives of the postindustrial age did more housework than their preindustrial equivalents.
    Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Like other postindustrial cities, Detroit has been trying to solve joblessness for decades.
    John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2018
  • The Twin Cities, in particular, seem to have been granted an exemption from the postindustrial malaise that has defined other Midwestern cities.
    Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • There’s something of a military-postindustrial-complex feel to this disconcerting show, which seems spot-on for the anxieties of life today.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Pittsburgh has shed its reputation as a grim, postindustrial city in the past decade and emerged as a destination for culinary delight, the arts, and natural beauty in the former Rust Belt.
    Hal B. Klein, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2021
  • But China thinks postindustrial economies, having contributed more to global warming in the long term than less developed economies, should be cajoled to cut emissions first.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2021
  • From boom to bust Americans are used to having products and services one click away - a society often described as postindustrial and knowledge-based.
    Tony Schmitz, The Conversation, 4 Jan. 2023
  • From boom to bust Americans are used to having products and services one click away – a society often described as postindustrial and knowledge-based.
    Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Yet even this toxic broth supports an ecosystem of a sort, offering a key insight into how nature responds to human impact and a glimmer of hope as to how life might adapt to a postindustrial world.
    Cal Flyn, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • Today, the Scott resembles a postindustrial sacrifice zone, its once lush floodplain buried under heaps of mine tailings.
    Ben Goldfarb, Science | AAAS, 7 June 2018
  • His criminal history harkens back to a darker time in Boston, when the city was struggling through postindustrial malaise, racial strife and a shrinking population.
    Jennifer Levitz, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Image All three are small, postindustrial towns whose traditional industries — steel, silk and carpets — have declined in the men’s lifetimes.
    Andrzej Lukowski, New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • Then, about 15 years ago, the Fed partnered with a host of institutions in midsized, postindustrial New England cities to figure out how to bring back economic vitality.
    Jeff Fuhrer, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023

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