How to Use mechanic in a Sentence

mechanic

1 of 2 adjective
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  • In the last three days, he’s worked with DRR, his sponsors, and the mechanic team to get adjusted to his new car.
    — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2023
  • Her brother’s dream, Suyen said, was to open his own mechanic shop in Nicaragua.
    — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2022
  • My grandma’s house sits around the corner from my uncle’s mechanic shop and down the street from my tía’s house.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Instead of the movie’s chimeric mesh of lion, wild boar, bear and wolf, this beast is all mechanic body parts and zero fluff.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Tan was the youngest of two girls, born to a bicycle mechanic dad and mom who were Catholics in the Communist country.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2021
  • For drives on country roads, diesel and gas pumps are positioned near the garage with a mechanic pit and room for 18 autos and RVs.
    — oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2021
  • But in a loophole, fake mechanic liens can be put on a property, too.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 16 Oct. 2020
  • In Dallas at a mechanic shop, Joaquin Godinez was buoyant.
    — Imelda García, Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2021
  • The addition would give the dealership six more mechanic bays and 15 employees over the course of the abatement.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • His mechanic friend instead shows him a defunct Naboo starfighter that the two of them and the droids repair to be a super fast hot rod.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • She was never allowed to pet the dogs that lived in the shop garage, but the smell of mechanic perfume and the feel of lava soap is pure childhood nostalgia.
    — Nicole Lazarus, Car and Driver, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The restaurant's servers also partake in its theme and are dressed in mechanic shirts and blue shop towels are used as napkins.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The combined structure was once a grocery store, printing press and mechanic shop.
    — oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The car then jumped a curb and slammed into two palm trees, knocking them over, outside a mechanic shop near the entrance to a shopping center.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Lewis/Louis Buis was a mechanic or mechanician — a job that in the first part of the 20th century involved muscles, grease, mettle and risk.
    — Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2022
  • On Thanksgiving Day that year, two drivers and a mechanic riding shotgun were killed in a crash.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
  • That’s why Girlie Garage is not a mobile mechanic shop, Handley said.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Swapped out flowing manes, leather, spandex and snakeskin boots for bangs, mechanic shirts, shorts and Doc Martins.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The pair met at a military officers’ club, where Yamaguchi worked in the hat check room, and Mann was hired as a mechanic and sergeant-at-arms in his off hours.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • Drivers get 85% of the proceeds from each trip and self-defense training, and the entrepreneurs are planning to open an all-female mechanic shop next.
    — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Pair Craftsman’s mechanic tool set with our favorite power tools, and your next project won’t feel quite as daunting.
    — Brandon Russell, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2023
  • The silver tread pattern gives it an industrial mechanic vibe, the tab-and-loop design of the panels should make the assembly process quick and easy.
    — Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Hayes paired his truck costume with a trucker hat, with his mom and dad posing on either side of him working on his tires in mechanic jumpsuits.
    — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022
  • When the pandemic hit, Gonzalez already was working at the mechanic shop on the weekends.
    — USA Today, 7 June 2023
  • Co-owner Brian Webb told the council the addition would give the dealership six more mechanic bays and 15 employees over the course of the abatement.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Dann and his mechanic father, Jody Boyles, pulled the camper apart, replacing dozens of boards, rebuilding the dented front end, and reinforcing the roof.
    — Samantha S. Thorpe, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Mar. 2021
  • For weeks, the boy’s father had come home empty-handed from his mechanic shop as business dried up, and the family resorted to bread and tea for every meal.
    — New York Times, 27 Nov. 2021
  • The agency is also planning on offering a $2,000 sign-on bonus for some mechanic positions, which have seen a shortage as well.
    — Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Perez’s father works countless hours as a mechanic fixing semitruck diesel engines.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • A couple of years after graduating from auto mechanic school, Cathy Heying had opened a shop in 2013 called the Lift Garage to help people with low incomes keep their cars on the road.
    — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
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mechanic

2 of 2 noun
  • Next the team modeled the mechanics on the right side of the heart.
    — Payal Dhar, Scientific American, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Craig was the mate, the crew, the mechanic, the fixer to his brother’s frontman.
    — Katherine Rosman Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The only thing that was stressful about the film was the mechanics of the cars going down.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The mechanic stood by his version of events, but also said the deputies were in the wrong for shooting Abelar.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • At this point, that might be less about his swing mechanics and more about his thought process.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The price on this DeWalt mechanics tool set may be enough to make a gearhead drool.
    — Tony Carrick, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2023
  • The mechanics travel from city to city with the trucks, which are transported on big rigs.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The mechanic is late and his friends are already inside.
    — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
  • Paulus even called her dad, who is a mechanic, for advice.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Finally, pack up and head to the nearest mechanic to change your spare for a longer-term tire.
    — Lauren Farrell, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • But while its mechanics may be grounded, the game’s tone is anything but.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Nioh had the Ki system and the stamina-restoring pulse mechanic.
    — PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024
  • There’s a fun mix of mechanics, from placement to deck building.
    — James Palmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
  • As dawn drags people from their tents, the cartel’s mechanics pick up.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Not all of the mechanics at its seven service centers are taking part in the strike.
    — Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Headlight alignment is easy enough to check and fix, Bullough said, and any mechanic should be able to do it.
    — Adiel Kaplan, NBC News, 11 May 2023
  • And then there are some things, such as modes or changes in mechanics, that just take a longer runway to develop.
    — Richard Lawler, The Verge, 3 Aug. 2023
  • When Thorne first joined forces with Hewlett, the focus was on tightening up some of his mechanics.
    — Ainslie Lee | Alee@al.com, al, 21 Aug. 2023
  • This friend got ripped off by a mechanic who took money for the work to repair his car and never repaired it.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2023
  • With this tool, golfers can get down to the nitty-gritty of basic mechanics to improve their game.
    — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2023
  • For years it’s been a mainstay in the mechanic’s repertoire for unsticking stuck things.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Her bald head opens at the back to unveil a disturbing metal cap that hides the whirring mechanics within her skull.
    — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The game's quite challenging, but the combat mechanics don't offer much to master outside of the new weapon move sets.
    — PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The mechanics of his life on the road have recently become even harder to manage.
    — Amy Pedulla, STAT, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Those blood-red roses, the steampunk-lite gears and mechanics, and Lopez floating outside of space and time at their center.
    — Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The final ability is Ultrahand, which in some ways could end up being the mechanic the breaks the most minds.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The next year, Mr. Clark, a veteran engineer and mechanic, was named head of the Max program, the fifth person to hold that title in three years.
    — Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Espinoza was in his truck following his son, who was in a separate truck, as the pair headed to a mechanic on Nov. 29.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
  • But the greater emphasis on the mechanics of the multiverse keeps getting in the way of the parts of the show that were most effective and appealing in Season One.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
  • This time, the mechanics of the operation were simpler.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023

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