How to Use machinist in a Sentence

machinist

noun

• He is a machinist at the factory.
• Rees was a machinist for 25 years and the father of three sons.
  — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2021
• At the time, the machinist was part of a crew working to place sandbags around a leak at the station’s base.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 7 June 2017
• At the time, the machinist was part of a crew working to place sandbags around a leak at the station’s base.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 7 June 2017
• The machinists are seeking a 40% pay bump over three years and a seat on the board of directors.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
• Around the same time there was a hobbyist show for machinists in Visalia, just south of us.
  — Skip Adrian, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2019
• Folders are the true test of a smith’s skill as a machinist and designer.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 16 Feb. 2019
• Modrow was born in 1928 in what was then the German town of Jasenitz — now Jasienica in Poland — and trained as a machinist.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023
• My father came here a few years before us and worked as a machinist.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2024
• As a young machinist for Colt's Firearms, Clarke King joined a union and his passion for workers' rights was born.
  — Jenna Carlesso, Courant Community, 24 July 2017
• His father, a machinist, died when Denevan was five years old.
  — Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
• Mark qualified for a pension of about $1,100 a month from the machinists union.
  — Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2020
• Linda was the middle child and shared a special bond with her Dad, Richard, a machinist.
  — CBS News, 16 Oct. 2021
• It’s rated to support 1,450 pounds, so don’t be shy about bolting a hearty machinist vise or even a drill press to the top.
  — Jack Baruth, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
• Thomas McCoy, a 55-year-old machinist, cast his first votes on one of the new machines Tuesday in Cartersville.
  — Russ Bynum, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2019
• Dan Vassh, a machinist from Racine, set up a grill by his pickup and took a photo of brats and hot dogs cooking.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2021
• The son of a machinist, Coleman was only 13 years old when his father died.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 30 Nov. 2022
• Three years ago, Darian Perez had a job as a machinist and an apartment in Phoenix.
  — Yana Kunichoff, The Arizona Republic, 26 Jan. 2022
• That can be cured by applying machinist’s rosin or Barge Cement to the rings.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 5 May 2020
• Available machinists are so rare that Mr. Lippert has had to train some of his other workers to do the job.
  — Shayndi Raice, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018
• He was employed as a machinist at Stanley Tools for many years.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 21 June 2018
• Hyde, a machinist, has said in court documents that he's worked in the industry all his life.
  — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2019
• His father was a machinist making tools used in oil drilling, and his mother catered food.
  — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2020
• Today, mom is a full-time homemaker and dad works as a machinist.
  — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 2 June 2017
• The couple raised four children on her husband’s pay as a machinist.
  — oregonlive, 15 June 2020
• The person who tested positive had worked as a machinist, Palmer said in an e-mail.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2020
• Volkov was a skilled machinist, with his own house and garden plot, and life was OK by Soviet standards.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Dec. 2017
• A food scientist and machinist by day, Hug has spent many of his nights over the past two decades discovering new objects in the sky.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 17 Mar. 2017
• The big picture: The comments came as Boeing still finds itself in a standoff with striking machinists.
  — Hope King, Axios, 25 Sep. 2024
• John Quinby, a machinist for a research institute, concurred.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024