How to Use assembly line in a Sentence

assembly line

noun
  • Her mother’s job was taking cuts of meat off the assembly line, packaging them and putting them in boxes.
    New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The last Oldsmobile rolled off the assembly line in 2004.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 21 Dec. 2021
  • She and hundreds of other workers were sent home to wait out an extended assembly line closure.
    Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Before an electric car rolls off the assembly line, an intricate battery must be developed.
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The marvel of mass production enabled millions of automobiles to roll off assembly lines each year.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • But without the paperwork, no one on the assembly line knew that the door plug had ever been removed, or that its bolts were missing and needed to be replaced.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The robo-signing scandal exposed Chase’s affidavit-signing assembly line.
    Patrick Rucker, ProPublica, 5 Jan. 2022
  • This includes manual tasks, such as moving a car windshield into place on an assembly line, as well as cognitive work like bookkeeping and accounting.
    Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • The task of transporting cars from the end of the assembly line to its final destination is currently a manual and expensive logistics problem.
    Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • And Tye White as Jack, an assembly line worker who had a brief fling with Sadie and whose commonsense thinking earns him a promotion to the white-collar ranks.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Was the idea to make something about the way horror comes off an assembly line?
    Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Just give me some Hershey’s Kisses right off the assembly line.
    Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The chip crisis showed that even one missing part can bring entire assembly lines to a halt.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Like most products of the K-pop assembly line, Yerin Baek began as a teenager in a prefab group.
    Chris Richards, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Beer started pouring out of the breweries' assembly lines as soon as the results of the vote were announced the next morning.
    Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2024
  • The problem isn’t merely that one worker on one assembly line failed to install a door screw.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Some rolls come out far too full, and some toward the end of the assembly line are missing two or three ingredients.
    Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 15 July 2024

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