How to Use conveyor in a Sentence

conveyor

noun
Definition of conveyornext
  • Inexpensive noodle and conveyor-belt sushi shops are plentiful, quick and fun.
    — Andrew Bender, latimes.com, 16 June 2019
  • To overcome this, the magnetic drum is located above a conveyor that's on a vibrating platform.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2018
  • The information is sent to a conveyor system that scans boxes being unloaded from trucks.
    — Christopher Rugaber, The Seattle Times, 1 Jan. 2019
  • The money will improve the factory’s conveyor system and for other equipment to boost output.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • Trump’s felony convictions as seen from Europe A boy’s arm got stuck in a CT airport conveyor belt.
    — Hartford Courant, 6 June 2024
  • More than a decade ago, McDonald’s began using a conveyor system to fill fountain drinks for drive-through orders.
    — Heather Haddon, WSJ, 20 June 2019
  • At Alibaba’s Hema stores, shoppers browse in the same space where employees fill bags with online orders that are placed on conveyor belts.
    — Julie Wernau, WSJ, 24 June 2019
  • From there, Emily rides up the first of many conveyor belts to begin the sorting of the mishmash of modern Montgomery life into its constituent parts.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al.com, 17 June 2019
  • The frosty blue truck is cryogenically frozen inside an icy terrestrial sustainment conveyor.
    — Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 7 June 2024
  • Omega, meanwhile, gets her foot caught in one of the conveyor belts, and Hunter saves her in the nick of time.
    — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 4 June 2021
  • Then the action jumps to a bird’s-eye view as the camera wheels in sync with the earth movers or conveyor belts.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • But what happens if one of the key conveyor belts breaks?
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 17 May 2022
  • The fire, which was on the first and second floors and in the conveyor belt, was under control in about an hour.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Then it gets wrapped, sealed, and sent down a conveyor for boxing.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
  • On the conveyor belt a section vibrates to shake out pieces that are too small.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 28 June 2022
  • Once mixed, the asphalt would then be sent by conveyor to silos to be stored.
    — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2022
  • The conveyor lifts were moved to the former location of Burns lift and lead up the mountain.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • On the other side of the walkway was a three-tier conveyor belt system.
    — Wendi C. Thomas, ProPublica, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The region is so flat and so desolate that the conveyor stands out, even from space.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Getting the cargo moving out of the holds and along the conveyor belts is just a matter of opening the gates and controlling the rate of the belts.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 1 Mar. 2021
  • That’s what led to putting the conveyor belts onto the paddles, which took us to the moon in terms of being successful.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2023
  • CLean Express Wash personnel will load the car on the conveyor, which goes through the car wash in three minutes.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The noise of the conveyor belts and packing machines creates a constant roar.
    — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • Tens of millions of masks can roll off a factory’s conveyor belts in a month.
    — Doug Bock Clark, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2020
  • With the game on the line, San Francisco had a bench full of right-handed hitters to run out against the Rangers conveyor belt of lefties.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 11 May 2021
  • Fhimah placed the bag on the luggage conveyor belt, the affidavit alleged.
    — Tim Starks, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The crime scene log does note that the conveyor system in the packaging room was turned off at 10:28 p.m.—nearly two hours after the first report of shots fired.
    — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • That goal is helped along by Oath’s conveyor-belt Ovention oven, which pushes out the pizza about a minute and a half after it is placed on the belt.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2022
  • Attach the tags, put them on the conveyor belt, and head to security like normal.
    — Jennifer Bradley Franklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Their adventure includes a botched sushi date and a high-speed chase on topsy turvy conveyor belts of doors.
    — Joyce Bautista Ferrari, Marie Claire, 21 Oct. 2019

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