How to Use electrician in a Sentence
electrician
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Fain was hired at one of the what was then a Chrysler plant as an electrician in 1994.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
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Hoban Sanford, a Coast Guard electrician, was among the first on the scene.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
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Here's when to call an electrician and when to call an HVAC tech.
—Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2024
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The electrician, the painter, the one who lays down tiles, the plumber — it all relies on cement.
—Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
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Serge Svetnoy served as the electrician on the set of the Alec Baldwin movie.
—Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 26 Oct. 2021
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If the home is 30+ years old, get an electrician to come in and inspect things for you.
—Southern Living, 2 May 2018
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Sometimes the concierge has to call in a plumber or an electrician to make the fix, but the user doesn’t have to know that.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024
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Thompson, who was raised in Texas, came to the Bay Area in 1990 for a job as an electrician.
—Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 2 June 2024
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His dad is an electrician and his mom was a postal worker for the town.
—Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024
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Fain was hired at what was then a Chrysler plant as an electrician in 1994.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
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Leo runs a bar, Clive’s an electrician, with two teenage sons.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
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Smith spent his first three years in Ohio as an electrician.
—Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer, 11 Dec. 2021
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The third man to wrestle Stingley to the ground, Cole, was a 25-year-old electrician who lived about a mile from the store.
—Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 25 May 2023
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In 1951, Kuhn began a four-year stint in the U.S. Navy and worked as an aircraft electrician.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2022
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The same thing happened to Dahl's friend, electrician Myles Davis.
—CBS News, 6 Jan. 2018
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Emmanuel Iloanya, a 63-year-old electrician, joined the throngs drawn to the gory sight, about 10 minutes away from his home.
—Washington Post, 21 June 2021
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The plumber has to work out all the plumbing lines, submit that to the plumbing permit people, the same with the electrician.
—Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 30 Jan. 2018
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The best are those worn by electricians: thin with sticky rubber palms that form a strong bond with the steel cables.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
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That’s the electrician that works on films and television.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2023
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Bend a Hook Insert the wire into one of the holes at the tip of an electrician's multitool.
—Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2018
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Mofe, as he is known, is an electrician at a printing press.
—Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2021
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That’s what led him to be an electrician and a mechanic by trade.
—Sarah Bowman, IndyStar, 2 May 2020
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The restaurant was full of electricians, plumbers, and the local mail-woman.
—Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2024
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The master electrician has helped the crew create subway cars for the set and a fountain with lights.
—Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
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Stephen Richardson is a 34-year-old electrician who also served in the Marines.
—Glamour, 2 Oct. 2024
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Shut off power to the circuit, and call an electrician.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2019
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Her husband was laid off from his job as an electrician, and so was her son, who worked for Hertz.
—Author: Ian Duncan, Lori Aratani, Michael Laris, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Sep. 2020
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Once the tree has opened its branches, electricians string thousands of lights onto the pine.
—Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
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Image While inspecting a villa in Rome, an electrician opened a trap door, and then another.
—Justin Porter, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
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To get the best result—and to avoid the risk of electrocution—you’re better off hiring an electrician who can pinpoint why your light fixture is flickering and use the right tools in the right way to fix the problem.
—Dan Kahn, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
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