tinkerer

Example Sentences

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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

In contrast to a designer, a tinkerer must, Jacob argued, manage with odds and ends.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

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

He was an inveterate tinkerer and inventor, a lover of gadgetry and mechanical devices, a designer of machines and contraptions of all sorts, a dreamer of big dreams.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown