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conveyor belt
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  • Below it on the conveyor belt sat a truck chassis, and clustered around it were three dark shapes the size of forklifts.†   (source)
  • While he's straddling the bar, the ramp begins to decline at a twenty-degree angle, and before he knows it, his feet are off the ground, and he's being carried along on a conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • I imagine each book traveling on a white conveyor belt toward rectangular white stations where robotic white arms dust, scrape, spray, and otherwise sterilize it until it's finally deemed clean enough to come to me.†   (source)
  • It was too much to carry, so I loaded it onto the freight conveyor belt and sent it on its way forward to the passenger quarters.†   (source)
  • Life had a conveyor-belt quality.†   (source)
  • Ginny took a cashier's job at a Winn-Dixie supermarket and learned to work the register while smiling at customers and stomping on the pedal that moved the conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • The chickens are locked in these dark, narrow cages, and given all these shots, and their feed is full of chemicals, and they're put on conveyor belts, and machines cut their heads off and pluck them …."†   (source)
  • Xhalal eventually got a job working for a company that made industrial conveyor belts.†   (source)
  • It all flies down the conveyor belts, four hundred tons a day, assembly lines of garbage, sorted, compressed and baled, transformed in the end to squareedged units, products again, wire-bound and smartly stacked and ready to be marketed.†   (source)
  • He refuses to let me put anything on the conveyor belt, so I just stand back and watch as he unloads the items from the buggy.†   (source)
  • She took a moment to gather herself and seemed to be gauging which conveyor belt was slowest.†   (source)
  • Behind him. the conveyor belt kept rising and clattering against the sky.†   (source)
  • He was watching the conveyor belt of humanity flowing into the hall from passport control—the international peddlers of goods and services, the seekers of asylum and employment, the tourists who had come to see a country that no longer existed.†   (source)
  • The travellers crowded along some conveyor belts to have their luggage searched.†   (source)
  • And the eggs will come through on a little conveyor belt--here!†   (source)
  • They were like a human conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • Langdon was already moving toward the electronic podium near the conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • She climbed onto the conveyor belt with her head only a few feet from the opening in the wall.†   (source)
  • The woman Cyclops stalked over to Sump and pushed him aside, knocking him over the conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • The man pointed to a large electronic podium facing the conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • Katherine was already climbing off the conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • On the conveyor belt, the bed of the unfinished pickup truck was being used as a fire pit.†   (source)
  • The conveyor belt entered the room on their right through a narrow slit beneath a retractable door.†   (source)
  • The conveyor belt extended a short distance then disappeared into a dark hole in the wall.†   (source)
  • But the crane holding it was on the opposite side of the conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • Upstairs, Sophie and Langdon exhaled in relief to see the conveyor belt move.†   (source)
  • Once the arm was clear, the conveyor belt whirred to life….†   (source)
  • The conveyor belt began moving again, carrying the plastic container back down to the vault.†   (source)
  • Conveyor belts wound through the room like waterslides, carrying boxes in every direction.†   (source)
  • He had seen the conveyor belt from his office window for thirty years.†   (source)
  • Percy started across the room, picking his way around conveyor belts and moving platforms.†   (source)
  • The queen looked like one of her caged animals being whisked off on a conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • When the program was running, Stone placed the stacks of petri dishes on the conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • Stone's mechanical hands placed the glass dish with the rock onto the conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • Then, slowly, he turned away, picked up a sack and rejoined the conveyor belt of natives.†   (source)
  • Resembling a small airport baggage distribution center, the circulation room had numerous conveyor belts that angled off in different directions.†   (source)
  • When cells were ready for shipping, he'd sound a loud bell and all workers in the building, including the mailroom clerks, would stop what they were doing, scrub themselves at the sterilization station, grab a cap and gown, and line up at the conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • They were all placed on a conveyor belt and run through a rampant machine that gave them a lifetime in ten minutes.†   (source)
  • Langdon's first reaction on seeing the building was astonishment that they had traveled so far underground on a conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • Like a pair of ghosts, the dimly glowing imprints of two humanoids had just emerged from the wall on a conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • As he closed the door behind him, Vernet saw the heavy-duty plastic case on the conveyor belt and halted in his tracks.†   (source)
  • When you are finished with your box, you place it back on the conveyor belt, insert your key again, and the process is reversed.†   (source)
  • As Langdon shed his jacket, Vernet hurried over to the conveyor belt, closed the now empty crate, and typed a series of simple commands.†   (source)
  • The metal door slid up, and a huge plastic box appeared, emerging from the depths on the inclined conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • New gears engaged, and the claw transported the box to the far side of the vault, coming to a stop over a stationary conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • It clicked and whirred along a conveyor belt, got hooked on a rope, and ascended through a slot in the roof.†   (source)
  • He carried death inside him in the memories of his mother and the ten-foot pyres and the bones along the road and the conveyor belt carrying hundreds into the furnace of the power plant at camp, the dead burned to light their barracks and heat their water and keep them warm.†   (source)
  • He picked up the cages that held the rat and monkey and set them on a rubber conveyor belt at the rear of the room.†   (source)
  • Sarah had started crossing the room when the floor changed suddenly to a number of conveyor belts whizzing away from the blinking wall at various speeds.†   (source)
  • They crossed a lane of forklift traffic, navigated a maze of conveyor belts, and ducked under a row of robotic arms that were packing up boxes.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile Ephialtes laughed as he pushed buttons on his control board, cranking the conveyor belts into high gear and opening random animal cages.†   (source)
  • The silhouette of a conveyor belt moved against the strips of fire in the sky, raising coal to the top of a distant tower, as if an inexhaustible number of small black buckets rode out of the earth in a diagonal line across the sunset.†   (source)
  • She would lie in bed, drifting off to sleep-then find herself suddenly thinking that the conveyor belt was worn at the coaling station at Willow Bend, Indiana, she had seen it from the window of her car on her last trip, she must tell them to replace it or theyand then she would be sitting up in bed, crying, Stop it!†   (source)
  • The conveyor belt began to move.†   (source)
  • Ancient-looking bronze and leather conveyor belts trundled along with stacks of weapons and armor, sort of like the Amazons' warehouse in Seattle, except this place was obviously much older and not as well organized.†   (source)
  • There was only a faint red breath above the structures in the darkness, as if the mills were asleep but alive, with the even breathing of the furnaces and the distant heartbeats of the conveyor belts to show it.†   (source)
  • Burton left the room, walking down the corridor to the autopsy room, knowing that the conveyor belt, made to carry materials from one lab to another, would have automatically delivered the cages.†   (source)
  • But years later, when we saw the lights going out, one after another, in the great factories that had stood solid like mountains for generations, when we saw the gates closing and the conveyor belts turning still, when we saw the roads growing empty and the stream of cars draining off, when it began to look as if some silent power were stopping the generators of the world and the world was crumbling quietly, like a body when its spirit is gone-then we began to wonder and to ask…†   (source)
  • Things were always pretty scrambled up in the shipping room on Friday nights with boxes and dollies and racks scattered through the aisles and guys hollering and the conveyor belts rattling away and the rotary ovens upstairs screeching as they moved on hot greaseless plates.†   (source)
  • Dressed in company uniforms, the women stood, somewhat bent over, on either side of a couple of conveyor belts, working as fast as possible to wrap two kinds of Paragen in cellophane.†   (source)
  • Quite incongruously, Keating felt as if a conveyor belt was under his feet, from the moment he crossed the threshold.†   (source)
  • The conveyor belt stopped at a table in a corner of the drafting room, where Keating found himself with a set of plans to expand, the scaggy back of the chief draftsman retreating from him in the unmistakable manner of having forgotten his existence.†   (source)
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