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Examples of machine shop in a Sentence
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The Coens then brought the actor back for another splashy role, as a yakking machine shop worker in Raising Arizona (1987).
—Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
Built for families to live together on dead end road
Allen said the property has two wells, room for a machine shop, and a separate building that housed a diesel generator.
—USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
For generations, the rivers were dumping grounds for machine shops, tanneries, gas plants and breweries.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
In what could only be described as a stroke of luck, Latimer was working as a draftsman at a machine shop in Bridgeport when Hiram Maxim, who would go onto invent the machine gun, came in one day.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Oct. 2023
Her father had a small machine shop on Long Island, and her mother was an offset printing supervisor.
—Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
The brothers, speaking only basic English, worked first in the California orange groves, before banding together and using their background as mechanical engineers to establish a machine shop in Berkeley in 1915, working under the name Jacuzzi Brothers Incorporated.
—Saskia Solomon, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
Hilcorp, Halliburton and Northern Solutions, a machine shop providing services to oil companies, are named in the investigation, according to online reports from the federal agency.
—Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2023
His mother had to take over the family business, a machine shop that made gears.
—Oli Coleman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1827, in the meaning defined above
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“Machine shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machine%20shop. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
Kids Definition
machine shop
noun
: a workshop in which metal articles are machined and assembled
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