How to Use supply line in a Sentence
supply line
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This is on the same main line where work had already been done to fix an issue on the liquid hydrogen supply line.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
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That didn’t go smoothly, though, as the supply line into the rocket saw a new issue with reduced flow of propellant.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2026
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The role, supply line and trust from Baumgart suggest his scoring will remain a net positive even once the streak cools.
—Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
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If lymph nodes are removed during surgery, the body loses this supply line and immunotherapy is less effective.
—New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2025
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All stores in the strip mall were evacuated, and crews located a gas meter behind the building that had been dislodged from the supply line coming from the ground.
—CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
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The United States, using ship- and submarine-launched missiles alone, would have been able to take out the Kursk bridge, thereby cutting off the most crucial Russian supply line and path for retreat.
—Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard also said Tuesday on Telegram that a gas supply line feeding a power station in southwest Iran was struck overnight.
—Npr Staff, NPR, 24 Mar. 2026
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With its supply line throttled, the plasmasphere struggled to rebuild, highlighting how tightly linked Earth's atmospheric layers become during extreme space-weather events.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 25 Nov. 2025
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These systems typically use 1/2-inch polyethylene tubing as the main supply line running from a faucet or rain barrel to the window boxes, and 1/4-inch polyethylene tubing as drip lines within each box.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 21 June 2026
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According to court officials, Mark Hawkins, 66, was charged with arson after investigators found a natural gas supply line in his basement had been manually cut, and an electric stove range had been left on.
—Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
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Iraq, the second-largest oil producer in the region and in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, depends on Iranian gas imports to generate much of its electricity – a supply line now directly threatened by the war.
—Ezgi Canpolat, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
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To avoid further supply line pinches like this, GM recently struck a long-term deal with Noveon Magnetics, whose San Marcos, Texas, facility is the only rare earth magnet manufacturer in the United States.
—Rebecca A. Fannin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
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The International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, said in a short statement Friday that a truce had taken effect in southern Ukraine to enable the restoration of the 330-kilovolt supply line to Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
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On the first wet dress rehearsal, NASA was able to load the SLS rocket core and upper stages with 700,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX), but during the final test countdown run, an LH2 supply line leak into the core stage exceeded acceptable limits and cut the test short.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2026
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