How to Use assembly line in a Sentence

assembly line

noun
  • Mary went to work on an assembly line at a Western Electric plant.
    Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The assembly line didn’t arrive in a flash of self-evident insight.
    Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Davis, who works on an assembly line and in music production, said the family has only just started to get back on its feet.
    Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The gun was stolen off an assembly line before it could be stamped with a serial number, the Globe reported.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Life magazine sent a photographer to his assembly line, but Poynter didn’t have one.
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 29 Aug. 2021
  • For one Miami game, that meant an assembly line of about 40 Cuban sandwiches the night before a game.
    Talia Soglin, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Squirt — Males are bent and squeezed by an assembly line worker in a manner that shoots their milt into little plastic cups with dart-throwing precision.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • But process automation in the enterprise isn’t the same as replacing assembly line workers with machines.
    Steve Smith, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Volunteers from various nonprofits quickly formed an assembly line.
    Krista Johnson, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • For example, employees in a manufacturing plant should be aware of the cybersecurity risks that can impact third-party software used in assembly lines.
    Raj Verma, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
  • There are several assembly lines working in parallel on different planes, but the most innovative part of the operation here is in Hall 245.
    Antonio Dini, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2024

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