How to Use industrialist in a Sentence

industrialist

noun
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  • Many once belonged to the industrialists who built summer castles in New York’s Thousand Islands.
    — Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
  • In the first book, he is drawn into solving the 30-year-old disappearance of a wealthy industrialist’s niece, Harriet Vanger.
    — Alice Bolin, Longreads, 26 June 2018
  • The gains of growth went to industrialists, who saw their rate of profit double.
    — Carl Benedikt Frey For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 26 July 2019
  • Yet, T’Challa as king rather than industrialist, puts far more at risk than Stark did.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Thomas Carnegie, brother of the industrialist Andrew Carnegie, purchased the island in the late 1880s.
    — Daniel Cusick, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2020
  • There was one hint of the scares at the end of Episode 1 as Elle meets up with the English industrialist whose eyes flame unnaturally.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 18 June 2022
  • Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist and chemist, laid out the founding rules for the prizes in his will, written a year before his death in 1896.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Leyson, one of the hundreds of Jews saved by Schindler, a German industrialist, survived Plaszow as a boy.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Two homes were built on the land, with George Kirk constructing the first one in 1875 which was later bought by Thomas Jebb, an early industrialist.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • South of the city, past the landfill where the city failed to build its waste-recycling plant, are the gypsum mines that, along with salt, made Bakhmut attractive to industrialists.
    — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The painting’s path for the next 60 years is not completely clear, though it was owned for some time, Mr. Palmer says, by a German industrialist who had bought it at the auction.
    — New York Times, 23 Jan. 2022
  • So, yeah, the stately venue, which was a gift to the city from industrialist Claus Spreckels, is going to require a little fixing up from time to time.
    — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The wooden box that held her body was turned into walking sticks—the industrialist Andrew Carnegie got one.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Huntsman, son of the wealthy industrialist Jon Huntsman, bought the Tribune in 2016 from the hedge fund that had been operating it.
    — Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Schindler’s List tells the story of the eponymous German industrialist, who is played by Liam Neeson.
    — Emily Tamkin, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
  • David Hamilton Koch was born in 1940, the son of a tough industrialist father who pitted his sons against each other to toughen them up.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Swan Lake was built in the early 1900s as a summer retreat for the four daughters of industrialist Cornelius ‘Con’ Kelley.
    — Neal Leitereg, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Over the years, both the ruling party and the industrialist have denied any suggestion of favoritism.
    — Mark Thompson, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Their argument was not with technology, per se, but with the ways that wealthy industrialists were robbing them of their way of life.
    — Andrew Maynard, Fortune, 12 May 2023
  • Meanwhile, the two and street thief Elle are pursued by a power-hungry industrialist and his growing army of evil Gremlins.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Mar. 2022
  • One of the engines, which had been thrown 60 feet, hit the corner of a house owned by Swedish industrialist Gosta B. Guston, then embedded itself in the frontyard.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2022
  • Christopher Mark, an investor who is the great-grandson of Chicago industrialist Clayton Mark, built the house for his three daughters.
    — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
  • However, French industrialist Félix Amiot had agreed to hold the Wertheimers’ stake during the occupation, and passed it back to the family after the war.
    — Bychloe Taylor, Fortune Europe, 27 Nov. 2023
  • In Mukadam’s assault, police have charged Zahir Jaffar, the son of a wealthy industrialist, with murder.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021
  • Recently, the antitrust holdouts have found a new ally in the industrialist Charles Koch.
    — David McCabe, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Atmanirbhar Bharat privileges the industrialist over the consumer, but that is not the way that it is advertised.
    — Aakar Patel, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Oleg Deripaska, a Russian industrialist, has called for an end to the war in Ukraine, joining a handful of oligarchs who have dared to speak out against the invasion.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
  • One was an industrialist’s mansion from the late 1800s, another a school with similar architecture and the third was a soundstage where the house’s kitchen was built.
    — Mark Olsen, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Our children must be inspired by the great industrialists and inventors and learn their stories.
    — John Gardner, Fortune, 23 July 2024
  • Cecil is a descendant of estate founder George Vanderbilt, who was a grandson of famed shipping entrepreneur and industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt.
    — Marnie Hunter, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024

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