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
  • In 1987, the first Avanti rolled off the assembly line in Youngstown.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The last Oldsmobile rolled off the assembly line in 2004.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 21 Dec. 2021
  • That way, for six days a week, 11 hours a day, as his hands fly across the assembly line, his mind fills.
    — The Economist, 27 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • The assembly line for the atomic bombs was spread out over a great distance.
    — National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Choi connects the new to an art form that was old when the first Model T chugged off the assembly line.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Again and again and again, an assembly line of buttocks.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The advent of the assembly line had routinized the labor of making cars.
    — New York Times, 10 June 2022
  • The paint line requires a higher skill set and pays as much as $1.50 an hour more than the assembly line.
    — Jenny Leonard, Bloomberg.com, 31 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • The son of a foundry worker, Kariem started on an assembly line at age 20.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 6 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Sanders is the next big back in Chandler's assembly line of all-state running backs.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2020
  • The very first 777 off the assembly line was airworthy.
    — Maureen Tkacik, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • In his book, Newport draws a kind of parallel to the shift to an assembly line at Ford over 100 years ago.
    — Jared Wyllys, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Later, to amuse himself on the Ford assembly line, Gordy would make up songs.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Robotic machinery did most of the work: Crane-like arms moved parts around on the assembly line while self-driving vehicles moved items around the factory floor.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Yet America is far different now compared to the Rust Belt’s glory days five decades ago, when millions of workers were employed to perform specific tasks along assembly lines.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025

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