How to Use bulldozer in a Sentence

bulldozer

noun
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  • At the site, a bulldozer pushed the snow to front-end loaders, which filled the dump trucks.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The tree’s branches are sawed off and the trunk is dragged away by a bulldozer.
    — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • That guy may well have met his fate on the business end of a bulldozer.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The field had so many levels of turf on it, bulldozers had to be brought in to remove tons of dirt.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In the central quad, there were new sand dunes shaped by bulldozers.
    — Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Most of us aren’t going to lay down in front of a bulldozer or chain ourselves to a tree.
    — Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2021
  • These bulldozers with armored cabs roll off the barges pulling sleds with steel mats to build roads across the soft sand.
    — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
  • Next to the Target, a charter school looked as if a bulldozer had plowed through it.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
  • Then, Eilish breaks into the house in a bulldozer to sing her portion of the song.
    — Chris Barilla, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Only then was the plane burned and buried with a bulldozer, as if to hide the evidence.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Once workers heaved the bodies into the grave, the bulldozer pushed the displaced earth over them.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Then, Eilish breaks into the house with a bulldozer to sing her section of the track.
    — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • In Omo Ranch, close to where the fire started, a bulldozer ripped out trees to build a fire line and stop the blaze from spreading south.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Leopard 2 tanks are low slung and have treads, like a bulldozer.
    — Michael Biesecker, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • In the creek bed, a bulldozer shoveled up trash, debris and grass.
    — Sara Cline, ExpressNews.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The bulldozer driver turned around, got in his truck, and never came back.
    — Cathy Huyghe, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Then they are carried to the trenches and covered with dirt by a bulldozer.
    — Safak Timur, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Across the hallway from the library, a bulldozer worked on what will soon be the school’s outdoor classroom.
    — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 10 Aug. 2022
  • One firefighter rolled his bulldozer down a ravine along the steep Hite Cove Trail and died.
    — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2021
  • There, in the center of the grove, a bulldozer and four workers, also in hard hats and boots, were planting tulip trees.
    — Kathleen Beckett, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2020
  • And why exactly is that bulldozer – at the 2:14 mark -- named Theophilus?
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 27 Aug. 2019
  • On a barren field in the district of Zinda Jan, a bulldozer removed mounds of earth to clear space for a long row of graves.
    — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
  • In order to move the whale, a bulldozer, jet ski and boat worked together to roll and moveit down the sand toward the water.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Crews used a bulldozer to cut a line in the vegetation around the station.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
  • In 2018, one claimed the lives of a firefighter and bulldozer driver battling the Carr Fire.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 16 Aug. 2020
  • On Tuesday, dozens of front-loaders and bulldozers were picking up loose tree branches from the sides of the road.
    — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The four corners of a crawler are supported by pairs of bulldozer-like tracks.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 29 June 2019
  • Far into the night, the Helms could hear the bulldozer grinding, carving a road to where the firefighters died.
    — Anne Ryman, azcentral, 24 June 2018
  • The building was set to be demolished, and residents fought hard for it to be saved from the bulldozers.
    — Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 6 Oct. 2024
  • At one point a bulldozer showed up, all to hack away at the jail’s edifice in the hope of revealing a hidden cache of abductees.
    — Richard Engel, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024

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