How to Use engineering in a Sentence

engineering

noun
  • This control panel is a good example of smart engineering.
  • And there were a lot of rules out there that didn't make engineering sense to me.
    David Pogue, CBS News, 25 June 2023
  • The Charger and 300 are large sedans that share most of their engineering.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The key is to use them for all roles, not just engineering openings.
    Anna Oakes, Quartz, 16 May 2023
  • The idea of planet-scale engineering didn't gain much traction over the next two decades.
    Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The current planning and engineering phase of the project is backed by $8.4 million of state funding.
    Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Modern plumbing joined to good civic engineering still ranks right at the top.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
  • And yet all too often people in the U.K. overlook the power of engineering.
    John Browne, Fortune, 21 July 2023
  • The engineering of this immense beast is cutting edge as well.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Behind the highest dam lies a huge pond, a reservoir kept in place by this feat of natural engineering.
    Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The positions are expected to be in engineering and pay over $50 an hour.
    Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Made to create in both 2D and 3D, these interlocking blocks combine engineering and art for a whole lot of fun.
    Maya Polton, Parents, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The original tram that John installed was already a feat of lift engineering.
    Gloria Liu, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Many of them hail from a business and engineering, rather than a military, background.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
  • As is so often the case, the solution is as much a matter of politics as engineering.
    Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • Prompt engineering, how people talk to the AI, and having humans in the loop, adds a bit of human wisdom to handle the technology.
    Kylie Robison, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Because in engineering, there is only right or wrong, there is only a one or a zero, and there are no gray areas in between.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2023
  • Those changes were marked first by a century-old campaign to drain the Everglades to create farmland, and then by the engineering projects meant to restore the flow of water south.
    Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Designing a beach where the sand would hold required engineering.
    Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Stephen retired in 1994 as a director of engineering at BTH.
    IEEE Spectrum, 18 July 2023
  • In some places of the world, Gleick says these conflicts have never stopped, and many have worsened with the advanced engineering made possible in the Second Age of water.
    The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2023
  • But the owner of that facility hired an outside engineering firm to evaluate the structure and sign off on the structure.
    Lindsey Pipia, NBC News, 29 May 2023
  • Some people go into fields like medicine or engineering in hopes of earning top dollar.
    Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Ship crews shouldn’t need to wait for a yearslong engineering process before seeing some relief to the passage’s congestion.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But in a triumph of modern engineering, the soaring Taipei 101, once the world’s tallest skyscraper, emerged from the island’s latest seismic event undamaged.
    Oscar Holland, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Nearly 40% of NASA’s science and engineering workers are age 55 and over and aerospace workforce shortages loom.
    Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • So the federal government stepped in with an engineering fix.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • For visitors, the structures demonstrate a living version of pre-Columbian engineering that’s far more accessible than the Inca citadel to the north.
    Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
  • One hope seems to be that the many challenges of developing clean-sheet BWB aircraft might be overcome by the sheer momentum of engineering and investment.
    Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Bending the River is a project using art and engineering to pull out a small percentage of water in the L.A. River and clean and redistribute it to irrigate nearby city and state parks.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023

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