How to Use engineer in a Sentence

engineer

1 of 2 noun

• The engineer stopped the train.
• Army engineers were called in to construct the canal.
• Design engineers are working on ways to make the cars run more efficiently.
• Joining him was a friend, Ghaith Akel, a jovial tech engineer.
  — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 28 May 2023
• Ford engineers are already working on the 2024 race truck, which is based on the current Ranger sold around the world.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2023
• Years later a friend set Quinn and Richard, 43, a software engineer, up on a date.
  — Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
• Sung-Ho Tsai, an engineer taking the class, asked earlier in the evening.
  — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Some of these projects that I’m involved with have thousands of engineers, right?
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023
• The award is presented to the artist, as well as the producer and recording engineer.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2023
• The owner of the home, Markus Beck, a 46-year-old software engineer, had been on a crime spree, officials said.
  — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024
• But the engineer took issue with the fact that this implied that the city was responsible.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
• The Houston trio tracked the album with engineer Steve Christensen.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 16 Jan. 2024
• But Meier believes those earthquakes were due to poor planning on the part of engineers—avoidable, with more careful study of the rocks.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 19 July 2023
• Jaja wants Marie to be a doctor, or, as a backup, an engineer.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• The engineer complied just in time to show Putin’s annual call-in show, which lasted around four hours that day.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 22 June 2023
• He can only be heard through the headphones worn by his recording engineer, Isaiah, at the desk.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
• With the backing of Meta, Threads has a team of engineers that volunteer-run networks like Mastodon can’t rival.
  — WIRED, 6 July 2023
• Anything else, SpaceX said at the time, meant extra data for engineers to review.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• Back at the mixing console, Maurice’s skullbud picks up two engineers whispering about pay cuts in the next room.
  — Annalee Newitz, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• Grammy and Emmy-winning engineer, Clark Germain, will record and mix the entire project.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 12 June 2023
• And then there was his passion for training knowledge engineers.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2024
• This led engineers to believe the spacecraft had broken apart or burned up during re-entry.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
• The engineer on watch forgot to throw a switch that would prevent the generators from overheating, leading to the outage.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• Roughly half of the company’s workforce, including key engineers, was forced out as Musk looked to slash costs to pay off nearly $13 billion in debt.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
• Aidan worked as an offshore chemical engineer before his death, per the reports.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
• So the committee has consulted engineers, and come up with a solution: Treating it with UV light to kill the bacteria.
  — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
• In July, the Corps built a sill in the Mississippi at river mile 64, which brought the bottom of the river up nearly 35 feet, and Corps engineers are currently working to expand the sill.
  — Isa Meyers, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2023
• One day, a fellow student told her to check out a NASA notice at the post office seeking engineers for astronaut training.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• Another type of adventure:An Atlanta engineer rode every Disney ride in the world in 12 days.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
• At the time of the 2011 earthquake, Konno was working as an engineer at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in the prefecture to the north of the Daiichi facility.
  — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023

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engineer

2 of 2 verb

• The rebels engineered a successful attack.
• Roy engineered it so that the train would ditch the engine.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
• For his team, the focal point was engineering with air.
  — Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Feb. 2024
• Segall co-produced the 15-song LP with Cooper Crain, who also engineered and mixed the project.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 26 Jan. 2024
• The new album was engineered and mixed by Cooper Crain, who also co-produced the record with Segall.
  — Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2023
• Over the past six decades, Autry Stephens has worn nearly every hat in the oil industry, from trucker to driller to engineer.
  — Devon Pendleton, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
• Anastasia engineered her escape from the Howard Johnson one evening in the late summer of 2013.
  — Bernice Yeung, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
• Yeti coolers are engineered to be put through tough conditions and still get the job done at the highest level.
  — Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 5 Oct. 2023
• In his third year, Bernard was promoted to engineer, in his fifth year captain, in his twenty-fourth year deputy chief, and now fire chief.
  — Isabella Zarate, AZCentral.com, 30 July 2023
• Yet the left lacks the support structures for activist students that the right has engineered over several decades.
  — Claire Potter, The New Republic, 28 June 2023
• Econoboxes aren't exactly engineered to stand out from the crowd, but the Mazda Protegé ES does.
  — Jim Caiozzo, Car and Driver, 31 May 2023
• The audio and video are engineered in-house at NPR, an act of submission that’s rare in a world where stars seek to control every part of their image.
  — Adlan Jackson, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• The duo engineered an amazing comeback to survive the second leg in Colombia and fourth overall in season 36.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
• Apple was in poor financial shape at the time, but Ms. Cotton worked with Jobs to engineer a striking turnaround.
  — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• But the Rams let this one get away when quarterback Jalen Hurts engineered a touchdown drive to vault the Eagles back into the lead as time expired in the second quarter.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• That invited Purdy to shake off his slippery-when-wet start and engineer a go-ahead touchdown drive.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
• Apple launched a free standalone app for sports fans, Apple Sports, which is engineered to fire scores and stats to your iPhone as quickly as possible.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• The team formed their company in 2008 and then took a few years to engineer and produce the solution, with Liang and Chen both moving to India for a few years to get it off the ground and market test it there.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
• The bitchy bon mots might as well be engineered for portioning into TikTok-sized soundbites, the outrageous plot twists for drawing gasps in the group chat.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2024
• For that study, the team also engineered mice to have higher than normal levels of the protein—these mice performed better on maze tests than normal mice.
  — WIRED, 3 July 2023
• But China is now poorly positioned to engineer such a shift.
  — Daniel H. Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2024
• Ampere engineered its chips based on designs from Arm Holdings, whose chips run most smartphones.
  — Mike Rogoway | [e-mail], oregonlive, 28 June 2023
• However, many high end stools are engineered with stain-fighting properties to put your mind at ease.
  — Addie Morton, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Jan. 2024
• Adjusting to a new team and new system isn’t a first for Dubois, who got his wish to be traded away from Columbus — which had drafted him third overall in 2016 — and then worked with the Jets to engineer the trade to the Kings.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• The all-wheel-drive system, however is engineered more for on-road control and performance.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2023
• The design of the highly versatile model was engineered so that its owner can tweak it to their particular tastes and needs.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 July 2023
• And to keep the views unobstructed, the building has been engineered with no vertical supports except its walls.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• Nichols also engineered these baits to fall at a consistent rate that’s not too slow and not too fast, resembling how live shrimp ride the tide as closely as possible.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• In fact, the sport has become so popular that brands are engineering these products for more than 18 holes on a Sunday afternoon.
  — Michael Loré, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2023
• In so doing, the therapy reduced the buildup of beta-amyloid plaques and tau tangles—hallmark features of Alzheimer’s—in the brains of mice engineered to mimic the condition.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024