How to Use civil engineer in a Sentence

civil engineer

noun

• The groom’s mother retired as a civil engineer for the City of New York.
  — New York Times, 10 Sep. 2017
• The civil engineer moved back home with his parents in Danville for a year to save for a down payment.
  — Louis Hansen, The Mercury News, 27 June 2019
• That first charge cost Sawyer, a 32-year-old civil engineer, about $20.
  — Alexa St. John, Matthew Daly and Joshua A. Bickel, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
• The 32-year-old civil engineer was a friend of the owner, E.L. Johnson, and had stayed at the hotel a dozen times before.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2020
• But what does any of that bridge jargon mean to anyone who isn't a civil engineer?
  — Erik Sofge, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2013
• The boy also looked up to his father, a civil engineer.
  — Brooke A. Lewis, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Jan. 2018
• Melcy Pond was able to hide the disease for years in her career as a civil engineer.
  — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 14 Sep. 2017
• Martha was headed to his job as a civil engineer in downtown San Diego.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2022
• His dad is a civil engineer, and his mom was a programmer.
  — Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• The report finds that lawyers and civil engineers are among the workers who stand to benefit most.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• Well, my mom is an architect and my dad is a civil engineer.
  — Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 28 June 2022
• Avazian is a senior civil engineer for the city of Glendale and has not served on any commissions or boards.
  — Anthony Clark Carpio, Burbank Leader, 23 Aug. 2019
• Ricky Ly, a full-time civil engineer and a local blogger who runs TastyChomps.com, shared his thoughts in this first edition.
  — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Williams, a civil engineer, was appointed to an open seat in 2014 and was elected to a full four-year term later that year.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 14 June 2018
• The suspect, a 15-year veteran of public works and a civil engineer, was killed in a shootout with police.
  — Vandana Ravikumar, USA TODAY, 6 June 2019
• Meanwhile, Osama Jaber, a civil engineer and Rafah resident, lined up large and small bags at his home.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
• Ulrich Pfeifer, a civil engineer and one of the builders of the tunnel, made calculations and created maps for the project.
  — Kirsten Grieshaber, Houston Chronicle, 7 Nov. 2019
• Among them are young men on his team, including a civil engineer who still keeps watch overnight on rooftops to ensure there isn’t a resurgence of fire.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2021
• Ruth and her husband Ken Wright, a civil engineer, have studied Machu Picchu over some two dozen trips.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2021
• Echevarría's husband, Lex Kools, a civil engineer, jumps over the fence every day to feed the other two dogs on the property.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2017
• Frerichs, a fifty-nine-year- old civil engineer and Navy veteran, had been abducted on the streets of Kabul in 2020.
  — Michael Ames, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2022
• Among them was Mark Frerichs, a civil engineer who had worked in Afghanistan for a decade before he was taken hostage by a Taliban faction last year.
  — Robin Wrigh, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
• Combs is a 20-year resident of Chula Vista and has been working as an assistant civil engineer with the city of San Diego for the past six years.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
• Donovan Neese is a civil engineer who has worked more than 20 years in the water industry.
  — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2022
• His father was a civil engineer who worked on the Panama Canal, and his mother was a homemaker.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 4 June 2022
• Omayya, who worked as a civil engineer at Amtrak, suffered a pay cut due to the economic crash, while the coffee shop where Ellen worked as a barista was forced to shut its doors.
  — Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 3 Nov. 2021
• The quiet-zone project went to the back burner for a while to find the funding, said Gary Kellison, an Oceanside senior civil engineer.
  — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 June 2018
• This time, Alsobrooks selected Sonya Williams, 52, in her sixth year on the board — a civil engineer who is not part of the seven-member bloc.
  — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021
• The records include field notes and reports from W.P. Rowe, a civil engineer who surveyed the watershed starting in 1929.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
• Farnie, a civil engineer who specializes in redirecting stormwater on construction sites, asked the builders to raise the elevation of the new property to the height of the road.
  — Kate Robins, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024