How to Use assembly line in a Sentence

assembly line

noun
  • The son of a foundry worker, Kariem worked on the assembly line at age 20.
    Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The group moved with the learned efficiency of an assembly line, giving out 400 bags in less than an hour.
    Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Welding robots on auto assembly lines aren’t thinking about keeping you safe; vacuum cleaners aren’t thinking about spiffing up your home.
    Laura Brown, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • In response, the European Union has slapped tariffs on Chinese imports, which were raised in October to as high as 45.3% in variable bands depending on vehicle assembly lines and components.
    Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024

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