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How to use electrician in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Electrician means a tradesperson who installs, repairs and maintains electrical wiring and equipment. Example: “The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.”

More sentences with electrician

  • The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.From the entry open
  • Last week the electricians were running conduit, and this week they'll be pulling cable.From the entry conduit
  • Everyone must follow safety guidelines whether you're an apprentice, journeyman, or even master electrician.From the entry journeyman
  • Not surprisingly, the electrician didn't come at the time he had said.From the entry surprisingly
  • The electrician said that we couldn't add a new outlet without rewiring.From the entry rewire
  • The steelworkers and electricians went on strike, halting construction.From the entry steelworker
  • The steel workers and electricians went on strike, halting construction.From the entry steel worker
  • We arrived home to a scene of controlled chaos, with painters, electricians, plumbers, and workmen of all shapes and colours all over the house.From the entry controlled chaos
  • I was watching all the electricians and stagemen to see if they were snickering at them.2019, Susan Robertson, Bucking Hollywood. From the entry stageman
  • Pete said that the sparkies, the electricians, had turned the power off.2004, Stephanie Smith, Underground London, UK: Hachette, unnumbered page. From the entry sparky
  • Sheets are on the floor, an electrician is prodding a light fitting, an unseen hammerer hammers.2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry hammerer
  • Let the electrician know at the outset that you are keeping a snagging list.2004, Julian Bridgewater, Home Electrics, New Holland Publishers, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry snagging list
  • KELLEY, kid-show midget, whose home is in Birmingham, is employed as an electrician helper at Hunters Point Naval Drydocks, San Francisco.1944, Billboard, volume 56, number 39. From the entry kid show
  • “We’re gonna need stadiums full of electricians, heavy equipment operators, ironworkers, HVAC technicians,” Dwarkesh Patel and Romeo Dean, AI-industry analysts, wrote recently.2025 October 30, Matteo Wong, Charlie Warzel, “Here’s How the AI Crash Happens”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2025. From the entry HVAC
  • Immediately, I know, the electricians and plumbers are going to say you can't do it that way with the work they do.2004, Gordon Smith, After the Mold, It's Your Money Turning to Dust, page 114. From the entry apples to apples, oranges to oranges
  • It may still be more difficult to come out in a hall of residence or on a course, but probably less so than if you are an apprentice electrician.1981, John Hart, Diane Richardson, The theory and practice of homosexuality. From the entry Gaysoc

Meaning of electrician

  1. noun A tradesperson who installs, repairs and maintains electrical wiring and equipment.
  2. noun A scientist who studies electricity.

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Questions about electrician in a sentence

How do you use electrician in a sentence?
Electrician is used as a noun. For example: “The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.”
What is a short sentence with electrician?
“The steelworkers and electricians went on strike, halting construction.”
What does electrician mean?
Electrician means a tradesperson who installs, repairs and maintains electrical wiring and equipment.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: electrician (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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