How to Use assembly-line in a Sentence

assembly-line

1 of 2 adjective
  • The process of making those larger paintings has a little bit of an assembly-line aspect to it.
    — Alex Bacon, Artforum, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Having babies didn’t just ensure the future of humanity in a practical, assembly-line kind of way.
    — Elissa Strauss, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2025
  • What comes through most vividly is the sense of forced placidity, the assembly-line-like control over life and activity this country club comes to represent.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2026
  • This isn’t a labor dispute involving steel workers, auto plant assembly-line employees or teachers.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 2 July 2026
  • Unlike many popular artists, she was never classically trained or in any other bands, nor was she plucked from obscurity to perform assembly-line creations.
    — Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The first is a nod to Zao’s assembly-line counter setup, which is similar to the build-your-own concept used by Chipotle Mexican Grill.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The same pattern repeated when assembly-line production expanded in the early 20th century.
    — Christopher Marquis, Time, 30 May 2026
  • These evoke the detailed, all-encompassing assembly-line mural by Diego Rivera at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
    — Erin Parish, Miami Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
  • This is still a Hollywood spectacle, complete with explosions and celebrities and deep-cut needle drops, slick enough to keep Paramount happy without ruffling in-house censors’ feathers yet cool enough to not seem like an assembly-line product.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
  • After four seasons of an assembly-line approach to maximalism — attach loads of nostalgia here, plug in decadent CGI there, retcon the plot throughout — the show’s budget is huge and the final eight episodes are supersized.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2025
  • This static approach was appropriate for filling factory assembly-line positions with individuals expected to retire between 50 and 65.
    — Jerry Cahn, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • When, in the early nineteen-hundreds, Gibson developed the F-style flat-back, inspired by the Stradivarius violin, the idea was to produce a louder instrument that could be used for classical as well as folk music, while being assembly-line-friendly.
    — Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
  • From textile workers in the Industrial Revolution to assembly-line workers in the age of robotics, once-stable fields have repeatedly lost out to technological innovation, while social policy has lagged far behind.
    — Ross Benjamin, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Now—in typical Internet of Things, or IoT, fashion—users will be able to plug a variety of assembly-line equipment directly to Sawyer and then control that with the same behavior tree that controls the robot on Intera.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Feb. 2017
  • Asked whether the initial handful of repertory titles could grow into a larger slate, perhaps with more contemporary releases, Kirk Shintani, creative director at MakeMake, stressed the importance of not taking an assembly-line approach.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Lurie’s film opens (in black and white) with Black American soldiers getting involved in a deadly confrontation and shifts to America where a post-war Castle visits the home of a former assembly-line worker (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) to talk about her pension.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 24 June 2026

assembly line

2 of 2 noun
  • That's where the assembly line comes in.
    — New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The car never made it to the assembly line.
    — Mark Phelan, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The car never made it to the assembly line.
    — Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The assembly line of fresh produce is then en route to those in need.
    — Chris Wragge, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Set up your assembly line — three shallow bowls will do the trick.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
  • Was the idea to make something about the way horror comes off an assembly line?
    — Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The assembly line for the atomic bombs was spread out over a great distance.
    — National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Cars on an assembly line are all the same and pass their robots the same way every time.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 17 June 2022
  • What came off the assembly line were more than vehicles.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • For many assembly lines, that requirement is tough to meet.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
  • There is no assembly line with robots; the cars are pushed from one station to the next by hand.
    — New Atlas, 27 Apr. 2026
  • That's a good sign for folks who are keen to see this glide off the assembly line in the second half of this year.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 13 May 2025
  • Then there was a short wait as an assembly line of staffers packed up our cupcakes into a to-go box.
    — Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 14 May 2019
  • There’s nothing handmade or one-of-a-kind here — this doll was born of an assembly line.
    — Staff Author, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The tomatoes were always there, coming in the back door as if on an assembly line.
    — Beth Thames | [email protected], al, 12 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • Walk down the assembly line and watch the workers make magic out of milk, eggs and butter.
    — Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
  • Emilio was assigned to one of the assembly lines, as Marcos had been.
    — Hannah Dreier Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • John Hughes would soon arrive with scripts for an assembly line of teen movies.
    — Cameron Crowe, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Sanders is the next big back in Chandler's assembly line of all-state running backs.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Cooked on-site by a staff chef, the meals are placed in takeout trays by an assembly line of volunteers.
    — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Last-minute changes at one point in the assembly line risks causing unpredictable changes down the line.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2018
  • The son of a foundry worker, Kariem worked on the assembly line at age 20.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2021
  • Players will return to the assembly line soon, welcomed by a shiny, state-of-the-art workspace.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
  • 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 security gates are meant to be a neat assembly line, not a five-car pileup.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
  • If a shipment of transmissions does not arrive, the whole car assembly line shuts down.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Women were ushered to the start of the line, and the assembly line of serving spoons was set in motion.
    — Delia Rose Sauer, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026

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