How to Use assembly line in a Sentence
assembly line
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The tomatoes were always there, coming in the back door as if on an assembly line.
— Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 12 Aug. 2021 -
Elder is a false prophet in a state that has churned them out, left and right, like widgets in an assembly line.
— Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021 -
The long days started at 7 a.m and went on nonstop with the brisk pace of an assembly line in motion.
— Stephanie Ganz, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2021 -
Just last summer a scene in East Baltimore looked like an assembly line.
— Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 7 Aug. 2021 -
China’s sports assembly line is designed for one purpose: churning out gold medals for the glory of the nation.
— New York Times, 29 July 2021 -
The Jets have gone through an assembly line of quarterbacks while searching for their first playoff berth since 2010.
— Steve Megargee, ajc, 22 Aug. 2021 -
The car dealership industry is as old as the assembly line technology that allows mass production of cars.
— Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2021 -
Yet every recipe feels equally manageable because each is simply a variation on a ripping-fire, wok-centric assembly line.
— Scott Hocker, theweek, 9 Oct. 2024 -
Companies keeping lean inventories to keep costs low might have to shut down assembly lines amid a prolonged strike, for example, Gold said.
— Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024 -
Memorizing facts too often results in a rigid mental framework, like an intellectual assembly line that assumes no variation.
— Ulrik Juul Christensen, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 -
The last Oldsmobile rolled off the assembly line in 2004.
— Marc Bona, cleveland, 21 Dec. 2021 -
Was the idea to make something about the way horror comes off an assembly line?
— Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2022 -
The first dolls came off the assembly line in February of 2021.
— Gregory Burnett, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2021 -
But of all bugs that came off the assembly line, the 1968 Beetle is perhaps the most iconic.
— Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2022 -
Emilio was assigned to one of the assembly lines, as Marcos had been.
— Hannah Dreier Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023 -
Cars on an assembly line are all the same and pass their robots the same way every time.
— Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 17 June 2022 -
The first cars are expected to come off the assembly line and be handed to Metro in 2025.
— Justin George, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022 -
The advent of the assembly line had routinized the labor of making cars.
— New York Times, 10 June 2022 -
Walk down the assembly line and watch the workers make magic out of milk, eggs and butter.
— Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024 -
In the case of the Arnage R, Bentley caught word that quite a few vehicles had left the assembly line with the wrong wheel nuts.
— Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2022 -
This year, the Hanover factory is making three different cars, the T6, the T7, and the Buzz, all on the same assembly line and all at the same time.
— Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022 -
The bobsleds entered the assembly line for their final ride of the day like planes readying to taxi.
— New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022 -
The plant will likely get an all-new body and paint shop as well as a battery pack assembly line.
— Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022 -
Apollo is the name of Toyota’s assembly line at the plant where the Corolla Cross – unveiled in June – will be built.
— Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 28 Sep. 2021 -
By 1949, little bottles of the stuff were rolling off a Swiss assembly line, bound for labs and doctors’ offices around the world.
— Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024 -
The last Boeing 747 has rolled off the assembly line in Washington.
— Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 10 Dec. 2022 -
In the kitchen, the mostly Mexican and Guatemalan women formed an assembly line.
— Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2022 -
Mary went to work on an assembly line at a Western Electric plant.
— Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021 -
One of the assembly lines in the Airbus factory in Hamburg.
— Antonio Dini, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2024 -
Robinson, who had to borrow someone's truck to keep her job as an assembly line worker at Stellantis and has sued the city in federal court, was never charged with a crime or even identified as a suspect.
— Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2024
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