How to Use machine shop in a Sentence

machine shop

noun

• Remember the steel mills and the machine shops South of Market?
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
• Back in 1992, Rob Musgraves took a job sweeping floors at a machine shop.
  — Donna Kiesling, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• Through a gate is the dirt parking lot, and to the right a low-slung prefab structure, the nerve center here, the gun store with the machine shop out back.
  — Michael Paterniti, GQ, 7 Mar. 2018
• Smith was in the machine shop of the USS Whitney, a destroyer tender, when the air raid began.
  — Billy Cox, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2019
• The Caiafa brothers moved back home and worked in their father’s machine shop.
  — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2020
• His mother had to take over the family business, a machine shop that made gears.
  — Oli Coleman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• At the time, the then-26-year-old had a good, full-time job as a production manager at a local machine shop.
  — Ryan Wichelns, Outside Online, 22 May 2018
• It's all built to scale, of course, and was constructed on-site in the owner's personal machine shop.
  — Elizabeth Finkelstein, Country Living, 13 May 2016
• The score, one of Cage’s mashups of prepared piano and recorded noise, sounds like a machine shop, or a slowly moving freight train.
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2020
• On one of the streets leading to the main plaza in Tecún Umán, Eduardo Escoto, 54, sat on a chair outside a machine shop.
  — Alice Driver, Longreads, 31 Jan. 2018
• Platform has worked for two years readying the building, a former machine shop.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2019
• In Miami, Carl Robert Brown, 51, kills eight people with a shotgun at a machine shop.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2019
• The old factory ended its run as a stamping plant in the 1980s, was later used as a machine shop and was abandoned about six years ago.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2021
• With those crises largely gone, no zoning change could have saved the machine shops and pasticcerias.
  — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 18 Aug. 2017
• Bauer will move an expanded machine shop into the new building.
  — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 31 July 2022
• Cathy, a school bus driver, takes care of her mother and Beverly takes care of the books for her husband’s business, Pack’n-Mfg., a machine shop in Litchfield.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2020
• The building that housed the company's cafeteria and machine shop, for example, will be used for the market hall.
  — Randy Tucker, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2020
• We were divided into groups and one group was to learn how to repair boats, the other was for repairing diesel engines and the other was the machine shop.
  — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
• My father got an idea and found a machine shop on Route 1 just south of Alexandria with a mechanic open to innovation.
  — David A. Taylor, Smithsonian, 9 July 2019
• So the two brothers in Augusta, Ga., began working in a machine shop on their own fairway rambler.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• Dating from 1902, the building was the machine shop for every significant ship launched during both World Wars.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• Bucyrus took ownership of the building in 1910 and used it as a machine shop and steam engine assembly shop and later as an employee club.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2021
• Electric Boat employees work at the company’s machine shop in late 2017.
  — Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 1 May 2018
• Delco Battery had a rooming house for employees to live not far from where Anna was living and working at a machine shop.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 22 Mar. 2023
• Aguilar's dad found work in a textile machine shop, his mom at a toy factory and his uncle at a leather goods manufacturer.
  — Nina Agrawal, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• The pair got to talking about robots, a subject that had long interested DeGray, who grew up around his family’s machine shop.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• Heffern owns a small machine shop in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
  — CBS News, 21 Oct. 2020
• For his part, Dragonman has already turned the page, out working in the machine shop, greeting new customers, showing off the weapons and museum, his Dragon Bike.
  — Michael Paterniti, GQ, 7 Mar. 2018
• For generations, the rivers were dumping grounds for machine shops, tanneries, gas plants and breweries.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• Her father had a small machine shop on Long Island, and her mother was an offset printing supervisor.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Aug 2024