How to Use machine shop in a Sentence

machine shop

noun
  • His mother had to take over the family business, a machine shop that made gears.
    — Oli Coleman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Platform has worked for two years readying the building, a former machine shop.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The Caiafa brothers moved back home and worked in their father’s machine shop.
    — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Its gated shifter, topped with a solid metal cue ball right out of a high school machine shop, feels perfect.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2025
  • With those crises largely gone, no zoning change could have saved the machine shops and pasticcerias.
    — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Remember the steel mills and the machine shops South of Market?
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 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
  • Hampton leaves prison with a head full of scripture and plans for a self-sharpening drill, cooked up during his time in the machine shop.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The Dodge brothers grew up helping their father build marine engines in his machine shop.
    — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2024
  • The pumphouse campus once had a machine shop, storehouse, carriage house and stables and a brick-making kiln.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Back in 1992, Rob Musgraves took a job sweeping floors at a machine shop.
    — Donna Kiesling, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • For generations, the rivers were dumping grounds for machine shops, tanneries, gas plants and breweries.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Heffern owns a small machine shop in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
    — CBS News, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The site has space for a machine shop, storage, vehicles and office operations.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Electric Boat employees work at the company’s machine shop in late 2017.
    — Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 1 May 2018
  • Creating a reliable, working firearm required years of technical study and access to complex machine shops.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
  • 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
  • From the street, Rushing Waters looks like a collection of pole-barn machine shops where doorknobs might be manufactured.
    — John Bordsen, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • 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 Houston machine shop worker was life-flighted to a trauma center in Galveston County.
    — Brandon Lingle, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The building is a former custom boot shop built in 1948 as a machine shop and later used as an awning company and as a Tejano club.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 July 2024

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