How to Use engineering in a Sentence

engineering

noun
  • This control panel is a good example of smart engineering.
  • With just a 15-minute construction time, the mBot doesn’t require hours of engineering.
    Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Everything from design and engineering to key partnerships needed to be rethought to keep businesses running.
    Abigail Bassett, Ars Technica, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Several proposals involving the dangerous engineering of huge swathes of the ocean are receiving funding and not much scrutiny.
    Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Created in collaboration with engineering giant Arup, its curving form has been constructed from two layers of slanted concrete shells that help echo the sound of the waves.
    Adam Williams, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
  • And there were a lot of rules out there that didn't make engineering sense to me.
    David Pogue, CBS News, 25 June 2023
  • The Charger and 300 are large sedans that share most of their engineering.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The key is to use them for all roles, not just engineering openings.
    Anna Oakes, Quartz, 16 May 2023
  • To say the least, this would be an advanced feat of engineering.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The idea of planet-scale engineering didn't gain much traction over the next two decades.
    Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The college of engineering is the largest school at Oregon State.
    oregonlive, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The Mercedes weighs in at a chart-topping 3954 pounds, a fact that even the most astute engineering can't hide.
    Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The current planning and engineering phase of the project is backed by $8.4 million of state funding.
    Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Modern plumbing joined to good civic engineering still ranks right at the top.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Hyundai and Kia models share much of their engineering, CNN said.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The design and engineering work sets the stage for construction, though the timetable and funding for that have not yet been announced.
    Lawrence Specker | , al, 13 Mar. 2023
  • And yet all too often people in the U.K. overlook the power of engineering.
    John Browne, Fortune, 21 July 2023
  • The engineering of this immense beast is cutting edge as well.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Our plan is to build these spaces, pay for maintenance and engineering, and let the centers give out the time slots for people to use them.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
  • On took the standard raglan sleeve hoodie template and added in their crafty Swiss engineering.
    Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Moyer took the day shift, and Jack, who kept his engineering job in Fullerton, came in at night, sleeping on his workbench, a box for a pillow.
    Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
  • Behind the highest dam lies a huge pond, a reservoir kept in place by this feat of natural engineering.
    Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2024
  • And that pure math was helpful to parts of applied math, and applied math is useful to engineering, science.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The positions are expected to be in engineering and pay over $50 an hour.
    Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Made to create in both 2D and 3D, these interlocking blocks combine engineering and art for a whole lot of fun.
    Maya Polton, Parents, 26 Sep. 2023
  • What followed was a three-day saga of aquatic engineering.
    Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The original tram that John installed was already a feat of lift engineering.
    Gloria Liu, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Many of them hail from a business and engineering, rather than a military, background.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
  • As is so often the case, the solution is as much a matter of politics as engineering.
    Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • Sana continues to focus on developing its ex vivo and in vivo cell engineering platforms and advancing its pipeline of product candidates.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024

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