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How to use factory in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective

Factory means a building or other place where manufacturing takes place. Example: “History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.”

Examples of factory by meaning

nounA building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

  • History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.
  • Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

nounA device or process that produces or manufactures something.

  • Radio became a star factory for journalists.2009, Sam Riley, Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture, page 200

nounA factory farm.

  • chicken factory; pig factory

nounThe original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.

  • factory settings; factory defaults; a factory reset

adjectiveHaving come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.

  • See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory.

More sentences with factory

  • They were discounted because they contained blemishes, nicks or were otherwise factory seconds.From the entry second
  • A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.From the entry meat
  • The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.From the entry salt
  • Once this factory comes online, it will double car production in our country!From the entry online
  • The waters of the lake were transparent until the factory dumped waste there.From the entry transparent
  • Did you see the spot on the news about the shoelace factory?From the entry spot
  • The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.From the entry escape
  • Rumors were rife that the factory was about to shut down.From the entry rife
  • There have been few factory and store openings in the US lately.From the entry opening
  • Major reform is needed to improve the efficiency in the factory.From the entry reform
  • I can't see the educational value of going on a field trip to the clothes factory.From the entry educational
  • In those days the entire factory was lit only by daylight and was closed at night.From the entry daylight
  • Working in a noisy factory left me with a slight hearing impediment.From the entry impediment
  • The rolls of greige cloth sat on the factory floor waiting to be printed.From the entry greige
  • The stirrers in the chocolate factory often get chocolate all over their uniforms.From the entry stirrer
  • The local factory will close down soon, unless sales pick up.From the entry close down
  • After the factory closed, it's slim pickings for work in this town.From the entry slim pickings
  • A small town's industrial school graduates often work in the local factory.From the entry industrial school
  • This area of the factory is where the PCBs are depanelized.From the entry depanelize
  • With its asbestos roofing and unshielded machinery, the factory was a multihazard environment.From the entry multihazard
  • The CEO's benefits are unlikely to trickle down to the factory workers.From the entry trickle down
  • The curtain coater broke down and the factory had to close temporarily.From the entry coater
  • What was a chocolate factory has now expanded to produce nonconfectionery items.From the entry nonconfectionery
  • Their factory in Ohio has purpose-built epoxy-curing ovens that accommodate even the largest models.From the entry purpose-built
  • After the management automated the factory, the machinists were out of a job.From the entry out of a job
  • Historical counterinstitutionalizations, such as worker-run factories, demonstrate the viability of decentralized models.From the entry counterinstitutionalization
  • They explored an abandoned factory on the edge of town.From the entry abandoned
  • The factory polluted the river when it cleaned its tanks.From the entry pollute
  • The factory will burn that wood into charcoal.From the entry burn
  • The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.From the entry rate
  • The factory increased its output this year.From the entry output
  • She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.From the entry tube
  • That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!From the entry plug
  • A shell corporation was formed to acquire the old factory.From the entry shell

Meaning of factory

  1. noun A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
  2. noun A police station.
  3. noun A device or process that produces or manufactures something.

Full definition of factory

Questions about factory in a sentence

How do you use factory in a sentence?
Factory is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.”
What is a short sentence with factory?
“chicken factory; pig factory”
What does factory mean?
Factory means a building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: factory (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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