Example sentences for: mechanic

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

  • An article chronicles a bizarre Egyptian espionage trial: An Israeli mechanic is charged with giving lingerie dipped in invisible ink to an Egyptian.

  • Alas, after looking at the car, the mechanic declared that he couldn't fix the shimmy.

  • Deemed particularly offensive are the skewed camera angles and choppy editing--"the Big Fat Over-Produced and Over-Directed Oliver Stone treatment" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). The plot--which has Sean Penn stranded in a bizarre desert town and caught between a real-estate mogul (Nick Nolte) and his stepdaughter/wife (Jennifer Lopez), each of whom asks him to murder the other--is called "a primer in hard-boiled clichés" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Exempted from the general drubbing is Billy Bob Thornton's funny turn as an unhygienic redneck mechanic.

  • After waiting a considerable period of time, a U-Haul mechanic showed up, taped up a leaky hose, and left.

  • The LAT fronts a $10.5 million lawsuit being brought this week in a Los Angeles court by a former American Airlines mechanic against the company for its failure to take seriously racial harassment he suffered on the job.


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