tinkerer

Example Sentences

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Obsessed with figuring out how things worked, he was an inveterate tinkerer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

We don’t really talk about it, but it has a link to his father, and his father being a tinkerer of old cars and Robby needing a vacation, a hiatus of sorts.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

He was a natural tinkerer with an orientation toward real-world problem solving.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2024

On the second night, he told more tales, and began linking his personal history to his current creative choices as a tinkerer and a fantasist.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024

Since Isaac often went with Jefferson when he hunted squirrels and partridge, or visited him in Monticello’s library and workrooms, he saw glimpses of Jefferson as the gentleman farmer and tinkerer.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis