garment industry
Example Sentences
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After a successful career in the garment industry, he waded into the media business following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
He grew up in a middle-class Jewish home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to immigrant parents who worked in the garment industry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
The textile and garment industry is Lesotho's largest private sector employer providing, at its peak, around 50,000 jobs, out of a population of just over two million.
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025
About a dozen mostly immigrant businesses owners operated shops on the property off of Lawrence Street, making their livelihood storing and selling pallets, recycling, fixing cars and supplying fixtures to the nearby garment industry.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2024
My father was drafted into the Navy, and Mama and my sisters all got jobs in the garment industry.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
