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Example sentences for "civil engineer"

  • A civil Engineer; member of the Institute; a Fellow of the Geological Society.

  • Knightley, a civil engineer, and Vere Bernard, a cadet, R.

  • And do you really think you are going to enjoy becoming a civil engineer?

  • If I want to be a civil engineer I've got to take an opening where I can get it.

  • Passing at Oak Hall wasn't a patch to passing as a civil engineer.

  • Now that he had passed the preliminary examination and was to go out for actual field practice, he felt that he was really and truly on his way to becoming a civil engineer.

  • I want to be a civil engineer, to build bridges, an' do sich things.

  • Send me to college to be a civil engineer!

  • To be a civil engineer you do, and that is what your son wants to be.

  • Why, he's a civil engineer--hydraulic work is his specialty.

  • He's a civil engineer and he lives in Gramercy Park.

  • I know he is a civil engineer, but that's about all.

  • Though we had never met before, I knew of him and I had an impression that he was a civil engineer or something like that.

  • He's a civil engineer,--Harvey Freeman: the Lord only knows in what part of the world he is at this speaking.

  • I can dress up on Sundays or holidays, but on the work days, when I'm a civil engineer, I want to wear clothes that show that I'm not afraid to tackle the rough and hard things of life.

  • I want to use my brain along with my muscles, and that's why I'm going to be a civil engineer.

  • If I were a civil engineer, out with a field party, I'd mark this section 'water' on the map.

  • And I don't like to be accused of liking dirt on my clothes, just because I am going to be a civil engineer," Tom explained in a milder voice.

  • He's what they calls a civil engineer; though hang me if I know what an engineer wants aboard of a sailing ship.

  • Civil Engineer, which is the gentleman's purfession,' says he.

  • How come you to know he's a civil engineer?

  • He was a civil engineer (apparently not a very industrious one); he had whatever emoluments that profession could bring in to a man who painted a good many pictures in water-colors; and he had nothing more.

  • He's a civil engineer, besides being a musician.

  • He was a civil engineer, having already built up a good-sized business.

  • I set myself up as civil engineer, and thereby ask people to employ me.

  • Their names were William Dean and Henry Ramsdell, and they had worked for some time in Oil City for a civil engineer there.

  • Up here there is more excitement to it than you are aware of, and before you have finished your vacation, you will say that the life of a civil engineer in the oil fields of Pennsylvania is not by any means monotonous.

  • A civil engineer came to me the other day to ask some points about reaching a certain part of the Island.

  • India as a civil engineer, and without influence rose to be chief engineer of the East Indian Railways, and did much important work in bridge-building.

  • He needn't necessarily go into the army when he graduates; he can become a civil engineer.

  • I am, as I have said, a civil engineer, and it is not strictly in my line to assist at the births of infants, imaginary or otherwise.

  • When Mr John Rennie, civil engineer, obligingly favoured the reporter by examining his models, he gave a decided preference to the structure of stone, as did Professors Robison and Playfair.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civil engineer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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