Example Sentences

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Opponents have said it would "industrialise the countryside".

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025

"To industrialise something like this usually takes at least five years," he said.

From Reuters • Aug. 9, 2022

With British technical skills in demand as Latin America attempted to industrialise, he found a job as a master dyer at a new textile factory in Brazil.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2013

When countries industrialise, they use far more water.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2012

“We have to industrialise India, and as rapidly as possible,” said the country’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in 1951.

From Economist • Aug. 9, 2012