How to Use body shop in a Sentence

body shop

noun
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  • My car is at the body shop having the dent in the door fixed.
  • Then your body shop would cut off your roof and weld on the new one.
    — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
  • They were pulled over and pulled back into the parking lot of the body shop.
    — Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The owner of the body shop lived near the Riveras in east Orange County.
    — David Harris, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • That work led him to opening the auto body shop in 2008.
    — Author: Naomi Klouda, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Colvert said the man emptied his clip inside the body shop.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 16 Mar. 2022
  • At one end sits a spotless, state-of-the-art paint and body shop, its walls a brilliant white.
    — Benjamin Preston, Car and Driver, 22 Mar. 2018
  • His sister, Tonya Williams, has worked in the body shop nearly four decades.
    — Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2023
  • The only holdup these days is how fast his body shop crew can convert them.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Nearby, a silver truck that had been at the body shop up the road dangled over the river.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
  • The gas station next to the body shop is another mess of debris.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 May 2024
  • Get an estimate for that job down at the local body shop.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Kina worked in a car body shop and craft store to help the family survive.
    — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2019
  • The first mural covers a wall of a former body shop; the second covers a wall of Miles Books.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, Post-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2017
  • His business begins to fail when a new body shop with lower prices opens in town.
    — Oline H. Cogdill Sun Sentinel, Star Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Kyle has a good job, working at a body shop, but Evelyn keeps egging him to try college.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Volkswagen will retire this body shop soon and build a new one.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • In one set piece, on North Fourth Street, a photograph from 1994 shows an auto body shop.
    — John Otis, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Haidar, who lives in Manassas, said his son works with him at an auto body shop.
    — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Gibbons called an auto body shop, and the owner told her to get the car there as soon as possible.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 17 Oct. 2020
  • In July, a car with a 2-year-old inside was stolen from a West Hartford auto body shop.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The vehicle had been stuck in the snow and she was helped by two men from a local auto body shop to free the vehicle.
    — Andy Attina / Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • How exactly did a local auto body shop think up the idea?
    — Amber Bonefont, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Jack follows the vehicle, calling Mike en route to the auto body shop.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Zalewski then went into the auto body shop and obtained gloves and a rag.
    — George Houde, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Her father owned a paint and body shop and drove a 1969 Mustang Fastback, which introduced her to the life of Mustang.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Most such services are mobile and cost about a third of what a body shop would charge, according to Edmunds.
    — cleveland, 27 Nov. 2021
  • The building has since been used as a residence, restaurant and auto body shop.
    — Vickie Snow Jurkowski, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Gilbert Anchondo, the father, greets his auto body shop employees and his first client of the day.
    — Dallas Morning News, 31 July 2020
  • After police took Miller to the city jail, an officer drove the patrol car to the city’s body shop for a damage estimate to the door.
    — Nichole Manna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024

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