How to Use civil engineer in a Sentence

civil engineer

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  • The groom’s mother retired as a civil engineer for the City of New York.
    — New York Times, 10 Sep. 2017
  • The civil engineer moved back home with his parents in Danville for a year to save for a down payment.
    — Louis Hansen, The Mercury News, 27 June 2019
  • That first charge cost Sawyer, a 32-year-old civil engineer, about $20.
    — Alexa St. John, Matthew Daly and Joshua A. Bickel, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The 32-year-old civil engineer was a friend of the owner, E.L. Johnson, and had stayed at the hotel a dozen times before.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2020
  • But what does any of that bridge jargon mean to anyone who isn't a civil engineer?
    — Erik Sofge, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2013
  • The boy also looked up to his father, a civil engineer.
    — Brooke A. Lewis, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Melcy Pond was able to hide the disease for years in her career as a civil engineer.
    — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Martha was headed to his job as a civil engineer in downtown San Diego.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2022
  • His dad is a civil engineer, and his mom was a programmer.
    — Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • The report finds that lawyers and civil engineers are among the workers who stand to benefit most.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • Well, my mom is an architect and my dad is a civil engineer.
    — Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 28 June 2022
  • Avazian is a senior civil engineer for the city of Glendale and has not served on any commissions or boards.
    — Anthony Clark Carpio, Burbank Leader, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Ricky Ly, a full-time civil engineer and a local blogger who runs TastyChomps.com, shared his thoughts in this first edition.
    — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Williams, a civil engineer, was appointed to an open seat in 2014 and was elected to a full four-year term later that year.
    — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 14 June 2018
  • The suspect, a 15-year veteran of public works and a civil engineer, was killed in a shootout with police.
    — Vandana Ravikumar, USA TODAY, 6 June 2019
  • Meanwhile, Osama Jaber, a civil engineer and Rafah resident, lined up large and small bags at his home.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Ulrich Pfeifer, a civil engineer and one of the builders of the tunnel, made calculations and created maps for the project.
    — Kirsten Grieshaber, Houston Chronicle, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Among them are young men on his team, including a civil engineer who still keeps watch overnight on rooftops to ensure there isn’t a resurgence of fire.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Ruth and her husband Ken Wright, a civil engineer, have studied Machu Picchu over some two dozen trips.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Echevarría's husband, Lex Kools, a civil engineer, jumps over the fence every day to feed the other two dogs on the property.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Frerichs, a fifty-nine-year- old civil engineer and Navy veteran, had been abducted on the streets of Kabul in 2020.
    — Michael Ames, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Among them was Mark Frerichs, a civil engineer who had worked in Afghanistan for a decade before he was taken hostage by a Taliban faction last year.
    — Robin Wrigh, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Combs is a 20-year resident of Chula Vista and has been working as an assistant civil engineer with the city of San Diego for the past six years.
    — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Donovan Neese is a civil engineer who has worked more than 20 years in the water industry.
    — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2022
  • His father was a civil engineer who worked on the Panama Canal, and his mother was a homemaker.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 4 June 2022
  • Omayya, who worked as a civil engineer at Amtrak, suffered a pay cut due to the economic crash, while the coffee shop where Ellen worked as a barista was forced to shut its doors.
    — Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The quiet-zone project went to the back burner for a while to find the funding, said Gary Kellison, an Oceanside senior civil engineer.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 June 2018
  • This time, Alsobrooks selected Sonya Williams, 52, in her sixth year on the board — a civil engineer who is not part of the seven-member bloc.
    — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021
  • The records include field notes and reports from W.P. Rowe, a civil engineer who surveyed the watershed starting in 1929.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • Farnie, a civil engineer who specializes in redirecting stormwater on construction sites, asked the builders to raise the elevation of the new property to the height of the road.
    — Kate Robins, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2024

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