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Example sentences for "engineers"

Lexicographically close words:
engine; engined; engineer; engineered; engineering; engineman; enginemen; enginery; engines; engins
  1. But engineers have just completed plans for tapping the Rio Grande with a canal and thus bringing under irrigation a tract some ten miles wide and a hundred and fifty long, containing nearly a million acres.

  2. The engineers and surveyors as they went about their work were molested by mobs.

  3. This tough assignment went to Major Chamberlin and a squad of combat engineers under First Lieutenant Alexander Bonnyman.

  4. Rentel reported that his engineers used both large blocks of TNT and an entire case of dynamite on the large bombproof shelter alone.

  5. Led by tanks and combat engineers with flamethrowers and high explosives, the troops of 3/6 made rapid progress.

  6. The performances of Staff Sergeant Bordelon on D-Day and Lieutenant Bonnyman on D+2 were representative of hundreds of other engineers on only a slightly less spectacular basis.

  7. Combat engineers had blown a hole in the seawall for the tanks to pass inland, but the way was now blocked with dead and wounded Marines.

  8. But the real damage was done by the special weapons of the engineers and the direct fire of the halftracks.

  9. As an example, nearly a third of the engineers who landed in support of LT 2/8 became casualties.

  10. Engineers with satchel charges and Bangalore torpedoes helped neutralize several inland Japanese positions, but the strongpoints along the re-entrant were still as dangerous as hornets’ nests.

  11. The surviving engineers rushed to place explosives against the rear entrances.

  12. In cities of the South like Atlanta, how many coloured mechanical engineers are there?

  13. It is a matter of common knowledge that Hayti has to send abroad even to secure engineers for her men-of-war, for plans for her bridges and other work requiring technical knowledge and skill.

  14. The Americans are as well placed as possible; army, fleet provisions, courage, everything is excellent, but without powder and engineers how can they conquer or even defend themselves?

  15. I have in my possession a cipher letter from this time-serving Lee, urging me to send engineers and officers to the assistance of America, and the letter is written before your arrival in France.

  16. All this confirms what I announced in my last dispatch, that the Americans are in good condition everywhere, engineers and powder excepted.

  17. It was an age of engineers and architects, who turned villages into cities and built cities in the desert, adorned with temples and stately arches and basilicas, and feeding their fountains from the springs of distant hills.

  18. But the prince of imperial builders and engineers was Hadrian.

  19. I came now upon a party of Engineers at work making a road.

  20. The firing-line was only a few hundred yards away, and the bullets from a Turkish maxim went wailing over my head, dropping far over by the Engineers whom I had passed.

  21. It was here that the field-telegraph of the Royal Engineers became a tangled spider's web of wires and cross wires.

  22. Here you could see the Engineers in shirt and shorts trying to find a disconnection, or carrying a huge reel of wire.

  23. There was a fair sprinkling of mining engineers and miners, and these men were more interesting and of a far stronger mental and physical development.

  24. The engineers and firemen on the Chicago & Alton road also decided to stand by the company.

  25. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers was born of the tyranny of the Michigan Central road.

  26. In case of a grievance the engineers are divided and are represented by two organizations.

  27. Another rule put in force at this time was that engineers would hire their own firemen.

  28. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in this district called upon Supt.

  29. He ordered that the heads of the chief engineers should be cut off, but this was far from satisfying his anger.

  30. This work was done by the Phoenicians, the ablest engineers at that time in the world.

  31. The achievements of these lion-hearted engineers could not fail to impress themselves even on a civilian.

  32. The task of the engineers is probably scarcely realized by people who have not seen actual warfare.

  33. A committee of public safety is established and a committee of engineers for barricading the town.

  34. The captain, engineers and crew had received notice to leave them, the gallant general being himself a good sailor, and having plenty of men of his own to sail and handle the ships.

  35. He sent for engineers from various parts of the country and amazed them with the unprofessional boldness of his methods.

  36. He found a large percentage of engineers and scientists who would have none of his nonsense.

  37. Some of the engineers thought that this was the perfect chance to set up a truly scientific society.

  38. He got one of the engineers who escaped the blast to talk.

  39. It was almost as if the engineers had a special animosity toward him, which they expressed in their unreasonable speed of construction.

  40. The municipal engineers had been making a new sewer through the Quarter d'Enfer with a patient disregard of the fact that under that quarter the Catacombs spread their innumerable tunnels.

  41. As soon as the Massachusetts Regiment had made prize of the ferry-boat, a call was made for engineers to run her.

  42. There were plenty of handy fellows among our Engineers and in the Line.

  43. Here, too, some of the engineers found a keg of spikes.

  44. It was not long ere he was remarked by the engineers conducting the latter, and he was soon called to give his advice on all difficult questions.

  45. By this time his eldest son was established in a practice at Ayr, the next two were working as mining engineers in Borneo, and the youngest was studying music in Germany.

  46. Illustration: A contribution to camp religious life, the 50th New York Engineers constructed this church for their comrades at Petersburg.

  47. Illustration: General Lee had hoped that Virginia's numerous streams and rivers would delay Grant's advance, but Federal engineers with portable pontoon bridges kept the army at Lee's heels.

  48. The engineers had reconnoitred the ground as well as possible, and had acquired all the information necessary to base proper orders both for approach and attack.

  49. General Scott at once set his engineers reconnoitring the works about Contreras, and on the 19th movements were commenced to get troops into positions from which an assault could be made upon the force occupying that place.

  50. Captains, pilots, mates, engineers and deck-hands enough presented themselves to take five times the number of vessels we were moving through this dangerous ordeal.

  51. Reconnoissances were made up to within gun-shot of El Penon, while engineers were seeking a route by the south side of Lake Chalco to flank the city, and come upon it from the south and south-west.

  52. The engineers and officers belonging to the Government--Don Mariana and Don P.

  53. Suez' is excellent, and Stanley's opinion is that of the best German engineers also.

  54. Even the engineers were humbugs, for when they made a tunnel for the Lucca railroad they could not make the two sides meet, and went on working in parallel lines till something fell in and showed one where they were!

  55. These took place under the supervision of two engineers appointed by the Commission, who were aided by a detail of officers and men from the royal engineers.

  56. We have seen many of the European engineers of Japanese vessels, and they all agree in declaring that the natives learn to imitate anything they see done with wonderful quickness.

  57. The engineers made up their minds that we were in the trade winds again yesterday, and that we should not want the engines for some days.


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