How to Use machinist in a Sentence

machinist

noun
  • He is a machinist at the factory.
  • My father came here a few years before us and worked as a machinist.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Rees was a machinist for 25 years and the father of three sons.
    — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2021
  • His father, a machinist, died when Denevan was five years old.
    — Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
  • My favorite uncle was a machinist who taught me to respect and care for tools.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Folders are the true test of a smith’s skill as a machinist and designer.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 16 Feb. 2019
  • Today, mom is a full-time homemaker and dad works as a machinist.
    — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 2 June 2017
  • His father was a machinist making tools used in oil drilling, and his mother catered food.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The couple raised four children on her husband’s pay as a machinist.
    — oregonlive, 15 June 2020
  • Around the same time there was a hobbyist show for machinists in Visalia, just south of us.
    — Skip Adrian, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2019
  • Our machinists are going to sell a lot of equipment overseas.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 11 June 2025
  • 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
  • Kevin George is a marine machinist.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Chanthaphavong found a new life working as a machinist and became a father.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2019
  • After more than a month on the picket line, members of a local machinists union will soon be back on the job.
    — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2026
  • Her father worked as a machinist, and her mother was a homemaker.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 May 2026
  • Young boys cleaned test tubes, brawny machinists built gauges and mills, and scales delicate enough to weigh an inch of a spider's web.
    — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The loaves are baked in an industrial oven so old that replacement parts are made by an on-site machinist.
    — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2018
  • As the machinists get back to work, management will have to address a host of other problems.
    — David Koenig, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Diffie married his college sweetheart and worked as a machinist before he was laid off from his job and left bankrupt.
    — CBS News, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Jan Waszkiewicz was a master machinist living in Poland.
    — Eric Noll, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Engineers talk about flex patterns the way artists talk about light; machinists know the lineage of every mold and ski by heart.
    — Kimberly Beekman, Outside, 4 Nov. 2025
  • That can be cured by applying machinist’s rosin or Barge Cement to the rings.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 5 May 2020
  • Linda was the middle child and shared a special bond with her Dad, Richard, a machinist.
    — CBS News, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The son of a machinist, Coleman was only 13 years old when his father died.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Throughout May, this spirited group of machinists was on the streets 24 hours a day.
    — Chris Mattei, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2025

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