sanitary engineer
- a word derived from sanitary engineering.
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
The symbol of that era was Ed Kelly, the onetime sanitary engineer, the confirmed tormenter of the English language, the kingcog of a ruthless machine which kept Democrats in power in Chicago and Washington.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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