How to Use electrician in a Sentence

electrician

noun
  • Fain was hired at one of the what was then a Chrysler plant as an electrician in 1994.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Hoban Sanford, a Coast Guard electrician, was among the first on the scene.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • His dad is an electrician and his mom was a postal worker for the town.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Fain was hired at what was then a Chrysler plant as an electrician in 1994.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • That’s the electrician that works on films and television.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2023
  • Once the tree has opened its branches, electricians string thousands of lights onto the pine.
    Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Have an electrician check the house before turning the power back on.
    The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The family snagged an old scoreboard from a city rink, and asked a friend who is an electrician to fix it.
    Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The tragic tale of the brief apprenticeship of a young electrician.
    Pat Myers, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
  • Michael Street is a union electrician who moved from Nashville to Goodlettsville about 25 minutes away.
    New York Times, 6 July 2022
  • Meanwhile, the city has been slow to attract qualified electricians to do the work.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2023
  • If the panel is in your basement, far from your garage, an electrician may need to run cable through your home, adding to the expense.
    New York Times, 7 May 2022
  • Danny, an electrician from Staten Island, loves the beach, the gym, and enjoying the nightlife.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 14 July 2022
  • Tokhi hopes to find work as an electrician soon, but in the meantime is working long hours at a restaurant and ice cream shop in Georgetown.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The rigging electricians are the ones that actually put in the power grids that power the sets and set lighting.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2023
  • An electrician can tell you more about how to power your house in these scenarios.
    Lexi Whitehead, The Enquirer, 22 June 2022
  • Villagers found an electrician to connect the bunker to power lines.
    Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Lecky grew up in East London, the daughter of a mental-health nurse and an electrician who formerly worked as a D.J.
    Desiree Ibekwe, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022
  • His father was an electrician, and his mother worked in a laundry.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2023
  • At one end, a gardener was trimming the foliage, and an electrician was busy with a nearby wiring box.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2022
  • But the grandson, along with his father and uncles, trained as an electrician in order to work in Russia.
    Anna Sherman Maxime Fossat, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Then offer the name of an electrician who is probably available within the next six months.
    Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • Consult an electrician to ensure your home's electric panel is up to the task.
    Nick Kurczewski, Car and Driver, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Firefighters shut off power to the outlet and advise the tenant to call an electrician.
    jsonline.com, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Plan to hire an electrician to add one before moving your desk inside.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Nov. 2023
  • An electrician who was sent to inspect the car two hours later determined the smoke had stopped and the bearing had cooled, and the crew was instructed to continue the trip.
    Ian Duncan and Luz Lazo, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • One electrician informed us our electric panel is way out of date, and that building codes would require a new one.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2022
  • It is made of stainless steel and needs to be installed by a professional electrician who can hardwire it in place.
    Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Feb. 2023

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