How to Use conveyor in a Sentence

conveyor

noun

• 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
• The skimmers are equipped with metal conveyor belts that glide along the surface capturing solid items, which are then moved to the back of the boat.
  — Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 22 May 2017
• Grainy black-and-white film footage shows British sailors busily operating multiple conveyor belts to cast crate after crate of leftovers into the sea.
  — Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
• The woman eventually jumps back to the other side of the baggage conveyor belt but continued to reproach employees.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024