Example Sentences

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“Gil’s a sanitary engineer, he’s not a biologist,” Viking project manager James S. Martin told The Washington Post in 2000.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2021

“The Civilisation of a People can be measured by their domestic and Sanitary appliances,” the pioneering Victorian sanitary engineer George Jennings wrote in the 1850s.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2018

"There's a train coming and we're standing on the track," said Kelly Frey, sanitary engineer in Ottawa County, just east of Toledo.

From US News • Aug. 5, 2014

John Cowan got a job as police chief, street inspector, sanitary engineer, weed inspector, Memorial Hall caretaker, trusty clerk, liquor law enforcement officer, clerk of the weigh scales, school bellringer and Town Council handyman.

From Time Magazine Archive

On his orders his sanitary engineer, William S. MacHarg, built a water-sterilization plant on the fairgrounds that pumped lake water through a succession of large tanks in which the water was aerated and boiled.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson