How to Use assembly line in a Sentence

assembly line

noun
  • Was the idea to make something about the way horror comes off an assembly line?
    Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The problem isn’t merely that one worker on one assembly line failed to install a door screw.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Currently, the plant is only cooled by overhead fans that swirl high above the assembly line.
    Coral Davenport, New York Times, 31 July 2023
  • After wafers come off the assembly line, companies use them as the base for microchips.
    Dallas News, 3 July 2022
  • As time went by, the cameras started to come off the assembly line that were more equipped, and the results were incredible.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Once the worker crosses the red line, the assembly line shuts down and leadership has to intervene.
    Eric Waller, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • His father worked in this factory decades ago, and Hahlbohm started out on the assembly line.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • Check out the floors made from pieces of wood and the old bathrooms elevated in green pods so the assembly lines could pass underneath.
    Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Dozens of crates of unused rockets were still stacked near the factory’s assembly line.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
  • George Lippincott, the founder and president of Nic-L-Silver, hopes to have 10 cars a day rolling off the assembly line now being tooled.
    B.c. George, Car and Driver, 27 June 2022
  • Experience may be even more of an issue on the 737 MAX assembly line.
    Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • But the government didn’t have a plan for the toxic byproducts of this nuclear assembly line.
    Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Every stop on that assembly line presents risks that could delay or derail new projects.
    New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Set up an assembly line from soaping and scrubbing to rinsing to drying.
    Genevieve Ko, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Tesla’s white collar staff face a stark choice: return to the office like their colleagues on the assembly line—or start cleaning out their desks.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 1 June 2022
  • The tour will highlight the assembly line, powder coat process, cold testing and steel and aluminum machining.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2023
  • Instead, Schwartz practiced the language and worked on the assembly line of a Mercedes-Benz factory.
    Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
  • EVs require fewer parts and, thus, fewer workers on the assembly line.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 14 Sep. 2023

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