How to Use pipeline in a Sentence

pipeline

noun
  • The first strike on Tuesday also hit a gas pipeline and a school.
    Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Enbridge has pipelines other than Line 5 that run through the Great Lakes basin.
    Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2024
  • And each time a new pipeline is built, or a new oil field is drilled, the transition is prolonged.
    Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
  • From prison to film set, this program creates a new pipeline.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The city plans to build a pipeline that would pump in fresh water from about 12 miles upriver, the statement said.
    Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The good news is that there are many promising medications in the research pipeline.
    Markham Heid, Time, 25 July 2023
  • The celebrity to politician pipeline is well-established at this point.
    Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Wells and pipelines in the Permian Basin, a huge oilfield near the rocket site, are thought to give off some 2.7 million tons of methane a year.
    Zachary Mider, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • This massive plant, as well as a new pipeline to bring the gas to the facility, will cost customers as much as $1 billion.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Mar. 2024
  • At the same time, the city's Water Services Department was overseeing a pipeline project at the recreation area.
    Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Tank vessels are used at times to transport oil to shore as an alternative to pipelines.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Olsavsky said growth rates for the cloud unit stabilized during the quarter and pointed to a healthy customer pipeline.
    Spencer Soper, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • At the same time, some of these companies have been insuring fossil fuel projects, such as oil and gas pipelines.
    Brianna Sacks, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
  • Each corresponds to a pipeline, and each has a warning label with a number to call in an emergency.
    Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
  • By now, the fanfic-to-novel pipeline has been well established.
    Vulture, 22 Dec. 2023
  • And for Netflix and other streaming services, the docs provide a robust pipeline of fresh content that checks all the right boxes and is ad-friendly to boot.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Corporations are building new coal mines, oil rigs and gas pipelines.
    New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • With a walkout long expected, writers have rushed to get scripts in and studios have sought to prepare their pipelines to keep churning out content for at least the short term.
    Jake Coyle, Fortune, 3 May 2023
  • These all represent complexities in the present-day pipeline, Wang says, but at the same time the larger field of meta-optics is rapidly evolving.
    IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2024
  • It’s used to transmit encrypted data and commands in pipelines, railways, the electric grid, mass transit, and freight trains.
    WIRED, 24 July 2023
  • Under the old system, requests to make major changes had to go through long pipelines before they were approved, as did requests for funding.
    Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • But the company also spent some time talking about the effects of the Inflation Reduction Act on its pipeline.
    Matthew Herper, STAT, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Right-wing creators feed off each other in a crushing hate pipeline that churns trans danger into dollars.
    Jeffrey Marsh, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2024
  • In response, the state has tasked Columbus State Community College to lead an effort to build a pipeline of thousands of skilled workers.
    Bymaria Flynn, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Firefighters have been unable to use heavy equipment to fight the blaze out of fear of damaging underground gas pipelines on the property.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The controversial pipeline idea was floated last year in a Utah legislative meeting as a solution to refill the shrinking lake amid drought in the West.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The Westside drill site and its pipelines have long been a concern to surrounding neighborhoods, which have complained about noise, foul smells, air pollution and an oil spill in 2021.
    Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Cavanagh was sanguine about the company’s content pipeline for the rest of the year despite the strike, which is expected to hobble the 2024 film slate and efforts to promote upcoming movies.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • Our pipelines and underwater cables connect citizens and companies across Europe and to the rest of the world.
    Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • In the New Orleans area, permanent pipelines to draw water from upriver have been discussed.
    Kevin McGill and Stephen Smith The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2023

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