Example sentences for: almy

How can you use “almy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He entered into a partnership with Almy and Brown to erect “perpetual card and spinning” machines, otherwise known as the Arkwright patents.

  • Brown responded on December 10, 1789, to Slater’s initial inquiry, saying Almy and Brown certainly wanted the assistance of a person with Slater’s skills because an experimental mill had failed, “no persons being acquainted with the business, and the frames imperfect.”

  • By 1793, the firm of Almy, Brown and Slater was operating a seventy-two-spindle mill, producing high-quality yarn.

  • Arriving in New York in late 1789, he was referred to Moses Brown in Providence, a prominent merchant who had established a company, Almy and Brown, to develop “frame or water spinning.”

  • Once in Almy and Brown’s Pawtucket plant, Slater found the existing machinery totally unsatisfactory.


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