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conveyor belts

n. (plural of conveyor belt English)

Usage examples of "conveyor belts".

The dour-faced engineer actually blushed when Kinsman arrived at the rock crushers, where an explosion had wrecked two of the six conveyor belts that carried pulverized rock from the giant machines to the electric arcs.

Eddie led the way between clattering conveyor belts, past the titanic furnaces and the mighty engines, around one huge and scary big machine and on past many more, until at last they snuck under an arch and down a passageway, which at least was far less noisy and didn't smell so bad.

Circular tram rails, streets down from its cliffs like conveyor belts.

Rattling elevators and moving conveyor belts wound through a maze of scaffolding and overhangs.

They then went through a series of huge, noisy, metal-lined tunnels where conveyor belts whizzed by full of dirt that was on its way to hopper cars that would be dumped into an ocean trench.

A factory, a huge alignment of conveyor belts and pounding machines, lay below, in a wide-open area.

That demanded dozens of mechs supervising the mining and smelting of iron, minirobots to toil beside the endless conveyor belts, subroutines and expert programs to catch every snag, each hitch in the unending stuttering fever of the Nudge.

To her the world was a three-dimensional web of invisible conveyor belts, capable of carrying her anywhere she wanted to go.

There were conveyor belts, overhead cranes and hoppers, buckets and wheelbarrows, and a narrow-gauge railway system with rails - where they could be seen through the piles and drifts of dust - which looked very similar to those Quiss had noticed in the castle kitchens.

As it was, though elevators and conveyor belts fell into disrepair, disuse, and finally into the oblivion of forgotten function, the essential machinery of the Ship continued its automatic service to its ignorant human freight, or waited, quiet and ready, for someone bright enough to puzzle out its key.

To either side of Hangar 17 were open docks, discharging the cargo of twenty-kiloton freighters along conveyor belts.