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Example sentences for "machinist"

Lexicographically close words:
machine; machined; machinery; machines; machining; machinists; macho; macht; macintosh; mackarel
  1. They had considerable trouble, and the crazy machinist led an attack of the soldiers of the red planet against our friends, the adventurers in the projectile.

  2. But what made you think the writing looked like that of the crazy machinist who tried to wreck the projectile?

  3. But it was not our fault that the crazy machinist went with us to Mars.

  4. The crazy machinist is out of it, and as for that man who sent the note to you, he seemed too big a coward to attempt anything like this.

  5. My machinist spent the better part of two days making a waffle-iron, and it was so precious and the Colonel was in such a hurry that I sent the machinist to Paris to take it to him.

  6. During the ensuing thirteen years he followed his trade as machinist at various places, besides serving three years as a volunteer in the Eighth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry.

  7. Mr. Abear is a machinist but has given much of his attention to farming.

  8. He came to St. Paul in 1849, as a machinist and millwright.

  9. In his early life he learned the trade of a machinist and became a skilled artisan.

  10. Marie railways and was the first machinist to be employed by the latter road in Minneapolis.

  11. The machinist was stooping over the motor to hide his agitation; but by the trembling of his hands Merritt could tell that the fellow was apprehensive of something that might involve himself.

  12. He was Mr. Barr's expert machinist and mechanical superintendent.

  13. The machinist made an angry reply and set off across the island at a rapid pace.

  14. Instead, he crouched low, and then, darting forward with surprising agility, he seized the machinist around the legs before the fellow knew what was happening.

  15. The sailors, and the machinist who had impressed Rob so unfavorably, ate later.

  16. I say he'll chase his feet," puffed Broadbent, the fat machinist who was truing off the valve-seats of the 195.

  17. This also was something the little machinist had not bargained for; he had taken it as a matter of course that he would be allowed to work for Uncle Sam in any old clothes, just as he had done for Abel Granitch.

  18. III And now here was the little machinist from Leesville, U.

  19. That was a line of talk the men were ready for, and the little machinist rejoiced to see the grim look that came upon their faces.

  20. And so it was easy for our little machinist to agree with the Roumanian Jewish cigar-seller in calling himself an "anti- nationalist".

  21. Service sat down on some proposition which Jimmie had ventured to make, the little machinist had not the faintest idea what he had done to deserve the snub.

  22. To the little machinist there flashed a sudden idea.

  23. The whole course of the world's history might have been different, if one little Socialist machinist from Leesville, U.

  24. The little machinist found himself shaking with excitement as these two tall forms strode past him down the aisle.

  25. So came the final crisis, when the little machinist had to show the stuff he was made of.

  26. Was one obscure little runt of a Socialist machinist to be allowed to block their world-plans?

  27. The wheels struck a rise in the ground, and he waved his hands in impotent excitement, and then rushed at Jimmie, exposing to the horrified little machinist the full ghastliness of that red cavern running blood.

  28. He was eyeing the machinist with what the machinist suspected to be a superior air.

  29. In the sympathy for the machinist the case of the laborer is overlooked.

  30. He was a machinist at the Mills; that's what the doctas thought didn't agree with him.

  31. Being a full-fledged machinist and with a very fair workshop on the farm it was not difficult for me to build a steam wagon or tractor.

  32. Then I was offered a job with the Detroit Electric Company as an engineer and machinist at forty-five dollars a month.

  33. The average wage of the "all-round" machinist is very nearly the lowest found among the skilled trades.

  34. It was afterward discovered that Schnaubelt was the machinist referred to.

  35. Upon their return the witness noticed that the machinist had something in his right coat-pocket which filled it up as an apple or base-ball might.

  36. His attention was directed to this fact because of the persistent manner in which the machinist kept guard over the mouth of the pocket with his hand.

  37. But in the judgment of the nation the garment worker, Abie, who is drafted into service in the army is of no greater value than his friend the skilled machinist who is allowed to remain in his present occupation.

  38. The machinist and coppersmith schools are located at Charleston, South Carolina, and are open only to reenlisted men who have certain experience.

  39. There will be my machinist in the rumble-seat," replied Morton, blushing furiously.

  40. The machinist had evidently been coached before he came.

  41. The machinist attached the queer little machine to the handle of the weapon, seized the stiletto in his left hand, and with his right began a series of sharp, rapid movements backward and forward.

  42. I used to talk with the machinist about them, and with the organ-builder, and with my friend the printer, but no one seemed to feel the intense fascination in them that I did, and that I should now be quite unable to account for.

  43. I tried other essayists, other critics, whom the machinist had in his library, but it was useless; neither Sidney Smith nor Thomas Carlyle could console me; I sighed for more Macaulay and evermore Macaulay.

  44. They then informed me that he was a most celebrated locksmith and machinist whose specialty was opening combination locks on valuable safes when the combination was lost by the owners, or when the works were injured by the blasts of burglars.

  45. He has only ordinary ability in other directions, but as a machinist he is a marvel.

  46. Less than a year after the tragedy, the invalid grandmother died and the young machinist was free to enter upon the great work of his life, the bringing to justice of his brother's murderer, or as he believed, murderers.

  47. This was helped out by the wages of the older brother, who was a machinist in one of the big factories.

  48. Thereupon he applies as an experienced machinist in a better shop.

  49. The machinist who ``steals'' his trade profits greatly by his mistakes, and the new salesman never forgets some of his most flagrant errors.

  50. Then were brought in the engineer and assistant pilot, as well as Koku and a machinist whom Tom had brought along to help him.

  51. Jerry Mound and the machinist rushed to the engine-room, to look after any of the enemy that might be there, while Tom, Ned and the others ran into the middle cabin.

  52. It will be necessary for the mistress to keep her eyes on these details just as the head machinist makes his inspection.

  53. But any machinist will tell one that an engine does not go of itself.

  54. The head machinist would probably drop a man on short notice who had proved himself to be persistently careless of the portion of labor committed to his charge.

  55. His father was a machinist and worked for years with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

  56. Rillieux was a machinist and an engineer of fine reputation in his native State, and displayed remarkable talent for scientific work on a large scale.

  57. The machinist set off at once, refusing any assistance from Captain Eph, and ten minutes later he returned with the dory in tow.

  58. The machinist Scholer and his assistant Bracher," was the reply.

  59. The captain continued: "I believe the chief machinist is also injured, as well as two of the machine tenders.

  60. He passed the inert form of the officer on the rail, and not until he reached the last step did he see the doctor and the chief machinist by the side of the dynamo.

  61. The machinist trade required skill at bench, vise and forge, and in the operation of the lathe and planer.

  62. It also required a general knowledge and resourcefulness which enabled the machinist to make good with the meager facilities.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "machinist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.