Example sentences for: engineer

How can you use “engineer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Chatterbox was unable to obtain details of this story, but "Murph" Murphy is the person to whom Edward H. Heinemann, an aircraft designer and engineer for Douglas Aircraft in the 1940s and '50s, attributes Murphy's Law in his (Heinemann's) 1980 autobiography, Ed Heinemann: Combat Aircraft Designer . Chatterbox got the poop on "Murph" Murphy from Fred Johnsen, the historian at the Edwards Air Force Flight Test Center.

  • When Rotcod was a student in junior high school, he wrote a history paper on the career of George W. Goethals, the U.S. engineer who masterminded the building of the Panama Canal.

  • “Two or three years ago, we couldn't have done this simulation on a single-processor laptop,” says one of its developers, physical engineer Bret Butler.

  • "We want to be able to land in grandma's backyard at night, in thick fog, without hitting the clothesline," says Jack Allison, an engineer on the project.

  • Electrical watts were named for the Scottish engineer James Watt, and readers will recall Wat Tyler's Rebellion of 1381.


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