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Example sentences for "engineer"

Lexicographically close words:
engendred; engi; engin; engine; engined; engineered; engineering; engineers; engineman; enginemen
  1. Janitzky, metallurgical engineer of the Illinois Steel Company, as follows: [Illustration: FIG.

  2. Lessons in it were given by Giulio Parigi, an excellent architect; and afterwards by Baccio del Bianco, who became engineer to his Catholic Majesty Philip IV.

  3. The writers of Prato exalt their countryman, Domenico Giuntalocchio, pupil to Soggi, in whose life Vasari mentions Domenico more as an engineer than a painter.

  4. Stefano Marucelli, both an engineer and a painter, was not born in Pisa, but he may be reckoned a Pisan from his long residence and attachment to the place.

  5. The fame of the pine lured a young engineer through Kentucky to catch the trail, and when he finally climbed to its shelter he found not only the pine but the foot-prints of a girl.

  6. And the girl proved to be lovely, piquant, and the trail of these girlish foot-prints led the young engineer a madder chase than "the trail of the lonesome pine.

  7. As a civil engineer I have used triangulation in my surveying work on many occasions, but how I can apply it to a criminal problem is beyond me.

  8. I am not an engineer myself, and what I know about surveying and triangulation could be put into a thimble, but I think I know enough to give you an idea of what I mean.

  9. Well, then, as an engineer how am I going to solve this problem in crime?

  10. Out West near Fort William, once occurred a serious collision--all because an engineer forgot to watch the safety signals!

  11. It means you are the engineer in the cab, with your hand on the lever, and if you can't be that, your life train will run away with you and then smash goes everything!

  12. As we know, the chief engineer had been killed; but, in the alley-way on the starboard side they encountered the second engineer, whose head was done up in a bandage.

  13. One shell had burst in the engine-room, killing the chief engineer and wounding three of his assistants, and leaving the engines no more than a mass of scrap-iron.

  14. They heard the tinkling of the engine-room bell when Crouch rang down to tell the chief engineer to let her go.

  15. From time to time, the chief engineer appeared on deck to report progress from the engine-room.

  16. For all that, she's not to be trusted further than a first engineer can throw a quoit.

  17. If the trouble occurred in the conductor's department, that officer must suffer if his subordinate cannot be proven guilty; if in the engineer's department and the case be similar, the engineer must answer.

  18. Under the old regime it required sixty priests to engineer it--the Government does it with five, now, and the others are discharged from service.

  19. In a few minutes we were on board and talking with an engineer who was watching the sunrise from the deck.

  20. The chief engineer had been directed to be ready to proceed, and the steam was hissing with a merry music.

  21. Put fifteen men well armed into each boat, and send the second engineer with them.

  22. We shall be exposed to the fire of musketry for about half a mile, and the quicker we make this distance, the less the danger to the men," said the commander, when the engineer presented himself.

  23. He had learned to be a sailor and an engineer in his repeated cruises in the Bellevite, his father's large steam yacht, now a man-of-war in the navy.

  24. The school of engineering should therefore be so organized that the young engineer may be taught the elements of every trade which is likely to find important application in his professional work.

  25. If the mechanical engineer can acquire such knowledge in the more complete course of instruction of the trade school, either before or after his attendance at the technical school, it will be greatly to his advantage.

  26. This extension of trade education for the engineer into several trades, instead of its restriction to a single trade, as is the case in the regular trade school, still further limits the range of his instruction in each.

  27. The engineer is dependent upon the machinist, the founder, the patternmaker, and other workers at the trades, for the proper construction of the machinery and structures designed by him.

  28. The engineer tightened the nuts as far as possible, but could not stop the leaks, which at last became so bad that we had to stop work and take the engine to the shop.

  29. There, one day, the girls of the cooking class served orange ice and rolled wafers to the engineer and the carpenter.

  30. I felt sure that, good as the ice and wafers were, they tasted better to the carpenter because they were passed on a tray he had made, and to the engineer because he had made the tins on which the wafers were baked.

  31. A rough estimate of the design and development time is approximately 3 engineer man years.

  32. It is said that before a competent engineer could order plug boards for Sigma interfacing he would have to study the system for a month or two.

  33. The mining engineer said: "The Mother Lode runs south from El Dorado County to the lower boundary of Mariposa County.

  34. He was, in fact, an engineer born and wholly untaught.

  35. Telford was the engineer chosen by the Government to execute this work, of which the portion between Morpeth and Edinburgh was actually constructed.

  36. The engineer was a very pleasant, intelligent young Englishman, who had taken up his profession in Canada, and was considered one of the most able in the colony.

  37. The fame of the pine lured a young engineer through Kentucky to catch the trail, and when he finally climbed to its shelter he found not only the pine but the foot-prints of a girl.

  38. The Sikhs have refused to assist us, which is breaking their treaty, and portends military movements in the Punjab;--an additional reason why our only engineer should not remain in Cabul.

  39. It was most gratifying to see the attention and kind feeling manifested on the occasion by the sergeants of the engineer department, and their anxiety (particularly Sergeant Deane's) to make themselves useful to Sturt.

  40. He is the only engineer officer at Cabul.

  41. Observe the wisdom of unnecessarily risking the life of our only engineer officer.

  42. He was a mining engineer of unusual gifts, in a country where mining engineers and flies vied with each other for preponderance.

  43. It is believed, however, that sufficient data are given to enable any competent engineer to understand thoroughly even the most complicated phases of the work.

  44. We must find the engineer and get it ourselves.

  45. The engineer was as close-mouthed as though words were going at a dollar apiece and the market bounding upward.

  46. Plainly it was not a good place to spend the night should Doddridge Knapp care to engineer another case of mysterious disappearance.

  47. The engineer and fireman were gone, and the watchman had been driven to cover by the foul weather.

  48. When I tried to question the fireman, the engineer recovered his tongue, and had so many orders to be attended to that my words were lost in a rattle of coal and clang of iron.

  49. The Engineer Commander glowered at the speaker.

  50. The decanters travelled round, and the First Lieutenant leaned across to the Engineer Lieutenant, who was contemplatively watching the smoke of his cigarette.

  51. In the Wardroom later on he met the Engineer Lieutenant.

  52. As he opened it the Senior Engineer came into the Mess.

  53. In the same way they all knew that it was the one occasion on which the little Engineer Lieutenant permitted himself the extravagance of wine.

  54. The leaden seconds passed, and the Engineer Lieutenant still stood beside the rail, mechanically knocking the ashes from his pipe.

  55. Now it may be argued that the Engineer Lieutenant ought to have stayed where he was.

  56. Then he suddenly remembered the Engineer Lieutenant imitating the twitching gauge-needle with his forefinger.

  57. Mind your own business," and the Engineer Lieutenant fled from the Mess amid derisive shouts of "Coward!

  58. The Engineer Lieutenant pushed his head inside his neighbour's cabin: "Come along--come along!

  59. The Engineer Lieutenant watched him for a moment, listening to the notes of the piano tinkling up through the open skylight from the Wardroom.

  60. Engineer Lieutenant, "I never really loved him till this minute.

  61. Austin put himself to some trouble in endeavouring to make Macallister understand what he thought of him, when they had gone, but the engineer only grinned.

  62. Then the engineer turned and glanced at the wrestlers, who were still stamping up and down the hatch with feet spread well apart, compassionately.

  63. I didn't care to tell you when you were just shaking off the fever, but one of my arms feels very much as that engineer said his did.

  64. So swift was the flashed glance that the tourist did not notice it, but Jacinta could convey a good deal with a look, and the engineer was a man of considerable intelligence.

  65. The engineer however, did not appear to notice his smile.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "engineer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
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