How to Use body shop in a Sentence

body shop

noun
  • My car is at the body shop having the dent in the door fixed.
  • Then your body shop would cut off your roof and weld on the new one.
    — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
  • The only holdup these days is how fast his body shop crew can convert them.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • They were pulled over and pulled back into the parking lot of the body shop.
    — Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The body shops then shared some of the profits with the tow truck drivers.
    — Adrian Ruhi, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Volkswagen will retire this body shop soon and build a new one.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • His business begins to fail when a new body shop with lower prices opens in town.
    — Oline H. Cogdill Sun Sentinel, Star Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
  • At one end sits a spotless, state-of-the-art paint and body shop, its walls a brilliant white.
    — Benjamin Preston, Car and Driver, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The gas station next to the body shop is another mess of debris.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 May 2024
  • Kina worked in a car body shop and craft store to help the family survive.
    — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2019
  • Nearby, a silver truck that had been at the body shop up the road dangled over the river.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
  • Haidar, who lives in Manassas, said his son works with him at an auto body shop.
    — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020
  • His sister, Tonya Williams, has worked in the body shop nearly four decades.
    — Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2023
  • Kyle has a good job, working at a body shop, but Evelyn keeps egging him to try college.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Zalewski then went into the auto body shop and obtained gloves and a rag.
    — George Houde, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The building has since been used as a residence, restaurant and auto body shop.
    — Vickie Snow Jurkowski, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Gibbons called an auto body shop, and the owner told her to get the car there as soon as possible.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The seafood and chicken joint occupies a former auto-body shop.
    — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
  • At the same time, the father returned home from his job as a tow truck driver at an auto body shop, police said.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • His family ran a body shop, and his dad was an amateur boxer who taught his sons the sweet science.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The owner of the body shop lived near the Riveras in east Orange County.
    — David Harris, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Jack follows the vehicle, calling Mike en route to the auto body shop.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The vehicle had been stuck in the snow and she was helped by two men from a local auto body shop to free the vehicle.
    — Andy Attina / Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Eventually Pace opened a body shop down the street from his uncle’s business.
    — Sarah Gish, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Most such services are mobile and cost about a third of what a body shop would charge, according to Edmunds.
    — cleveland, 27 Nov. 2021
  • The first mural covers a wall of a former body shop; the second covers a wall of Miles Books.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, Post-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Gilbert Anchondo, the father, greets his auto body shop employees and his first client of the day.
    — Dallas Morning News, 31 July 2020
  • Transportation using public roads and highways to and from a mechanic or body shop is allowed.
    — Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Auto-body shops, painters, tattoo shops, even the food service industry have things of value to him, Reid said.
    — Fox News, 1 Apr. 2020
  • In July, a car with a 2-year-old inside was stolen from a West Hartford auto body shop.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 4 Oct. 2021

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