Sentence examples for preindustrial from inspiring English sources
'preindustrial' is a correct and usable word in written English
It refers to a time period before the industrial revolution, when manual labor and traditional methods were the main means of production. Example: "The village still relied on preindustrial methods of farming, with plows pulled by oxen and hand-sewn clothing."
adjective
Not yet industrialized.
A rise in concentrations from preindustrial levels of 280 parts per million (ppm) to 560ppm would thus warm the Earth by 1°C.
"Small is beautiful," declare the protesters as they seek to reestablish communal and craft environments characteristic of the preindustrial period.
The older Robin Hood ballads are also minstrel propaganda, glorifying the virtues of the yeomanry, the small independent landowners of preindustrial England.
His equivalent, in an army of 50,000 in the preindustrial era, would be 1,875 wagons drawn by 11,250 horses or mules, which might need additional wagons and animals to haul forage.
Because of the effects of atmospheric brown clouds, India and China are dimmer at the surface today by at least 6 percent compared with their state in preindustrial times.
Rome was swelled by migrants from the countryside and became the largest city of preindustrial Europe, with a population of about one million in the imperial era; other Italian cities grew to a lesser extent.
Spain experienced the traditional preindustrial pattern of high birth and death rates throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, but both began to decline shortly after 1900.
Populations of northern bluefin tuna in the Atlantic Ocean have declined significantly since preindustrial times because of overfishing.
Because of the effects of the Asian brown cloud, India and China are dimmer at the surface today by at least 6 percent compared with their state in preindustrial times.
Preindustrial levels of CH4 in the atmosphere were approximately 700 ppb, whereas early 21st-century levels exceeded 1,770 ppb.
From such preindustrial-era developments as the eyed needle and such implements as the spindle and distaff used in hand spinning to the mechanized manufacturing made possible through Industrial Revolution innovations, technology has improved the quality and complexity of garments and made production easier and more efficient over the centuries.
