How to Use conveyor in a Sentence
conveyor
noun-
Sushi served via conveyor belt Food is served on a two-tier conveyor belt system.
— Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Nov. 2024 -
And the individual was arrested multiple times for stealing luggage off of conveyor belts inside airports.
— NBC News, 17 Nov. 2024 -
Nearly vertical conveyor belts lifted dry ingredients high up to be deposited into hoppers where they were mixed with water and then the wet concrete was poured into waiting trucks below.
— Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024 -
Ride the conveyor lift to the top, then slide down one of their many chutes.
— Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2018 -
Omega, meanwhile, gets her foot caught in one of the conveyor belts, and Hunter saves her in the nick of time.
— Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 4 June 2021 -
Then the action jumps to a bird’s-eye view as the camera wheels in sync with the earth movers or conveyor belts.
— Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2021 -
But what happens if one of the key conveyor belts breaks?
— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 17 May 2022 -
The fire, which was on the first and second floors and in the conveyor belt, was under control in about an hour.
— Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2021 -
Then it gets wrapped, sealed, and sent down a conveyor for boxing.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019 -
On the conveyor belt a section vibrates to shake out pieces that are too small.
— Marc Bona, cleveland, 28 June 2022 -
Once mixed, the asphalt would then be sent by conveyor to silos to be stored.
— Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2022 -
The conveyor lifts were moved to the former location of Burns lift and lead up the mountain.
— Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Dec. 2022 -
On the other side of the walkway was a three-tier conveyor belt system.
— Wendi C. Thomas, ProPublica, 23 Dec. 2020 -
There is a conveyor belt to transport the limestone rocks into the prison camp.
— The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 25 Oct. 2017 -
The region is so flat and so desolate that the conveyor stands out, even from space.
— Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023 -
Cobwebs have had the chance to take hold around conveyor hooks that once held stamped truck-body panels and seats.
— David Kiley, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2010 -
Getting the cargo moving out of the holds and along the conveyor belts is just a matter of opening the gates and controlling the rate of the belts.
— Rob Verger, Popular Science, 1 Mar. 2021 -
That’s what led to putting the conveyor belts onto the paddles, which took us to the moon in terms of being successful.
— IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2023 -
Think of these like a series of gates, through which the car-carrying conveyor belt runs.
— Alex Davies, WIRED, 22 June 2018 -
CLean Express Wash personnel will load the car on the conveyor, which goes through the car wash in three minutes.
— John Benson, cleveland, 3 Mar. 2021 -
The noise of the conveyor belts and packing machines creates a constant roar.
— Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023 -
Tens of millions of masks can roll off a factory’s conveyor belts in a month.
— Doug Bock Clark, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2020 -
Crews over months will break down and hoist away the machine’s front-end steel and pull its rear conveyors, walkways and hoses back through the tunnel.
— Jessica Lee, The Seattle Times, 4 May 2017 -
With the game on the line, San Francisco had a bench full of right-handed hitters to run out against the Rangers conveyor belt of lefties.
— Evan Grant, Dallas News, 11 May 2021 -
Fhimah placed the bag on the luggage conveyor belt, the affidavit alleged.
— Tim Starks, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2022 -
Cooks dredge chicken parts in flour and place them on a slow-moving conveyor belt at one end of the contraption.
— Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 6 June 2018 -
The crime scene log does note that the conveyor system in the packaging room was turned off at 10:28 p.m.—nearly two hours after the first report of shots fired.
— Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023 -
He wasn’t put on the conveyor belt to greatness. That’s inspiring, someone who works outside the system and still gets to the top of it.
— John Williams, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018 -
In just over an hour the containers are inside, their contents on the conveyors.
— Barry D. Wood, USA TODAY, 10 May 2018 -
But we weren't made for nylon conveyor belts and plastic stairs.
— Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2017
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