How to Use tractor in a Sentence

tractor

noun
  • The pipes in the house started to whirr and clank like an old tractor.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Oct. 2024
  • One day Frank saw a sweet—an Emerald—on the floor of the tractor.
    — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The bride and groom had a Range Rover on standby in case the tractor broke down.
    — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 16 July 2023
  • At the time of our Zoom call, Ross had yet to name his tractor.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2021
  • On the road to one of those gigs in 2004, a tractor-trailer hit him head-on.
    — Andrew Boryga, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The front of the tractor-trailer struck the left side of the Chrysler in the intersection.
    — Ngan Ho, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The driver of the tractor-trailer died at the scene, police said.
    — Casey Parks, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The tractor was on the beach as part of a harbor dredging project.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The crew had lost control of the jet, which fell into the Red Sea along with the tow tractor.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • All-new free tractor rides are one of the standouts of this year's fair.
    — Serena Puang, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The last customer was the farmer across the street, who arrived on his tractor.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021
  • So the Ukrainian tankers towed away the T-72 using their own T-64 as the tractor.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured in the wreck.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The small boy creeping out at night to retrieve a sweet from the floor of a tractor would fade.
    — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The condition of the driver of the tractor-trailer is not known.
    — Tandra Smith | [email protected], al, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The driver of the tractor-trailer, a 45-year-old New York man, was not injured in the crash.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 31 Oct. 2022
  • One of their first projects was to build a small structure for their well, pump, and tractor.
    — Sunset Magazine, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Jack mounted a tractor and pulled a long auger used to convey the corn off one of the grain bins.
    — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Maresh even had to find someone to show him how to start his tractor.
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The machine looks like a cross between a Jeep and a tractor, with its wide tracks.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Tester rode a tractor in the Fourth of July parade in Butte.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The four deaths in the crash were sustained in the vehicles the tractor-trailer struck, DPS said.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Firefighters were able to prop up the tractor and pull the man to safety.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 1 July 2020
  • To raise more crops from the earth, tractor maker Deere & Co. is looking to space.
    — Bob Tita, wsj.com, 1 May 2023
  • There were tractors and the headlights of border guard cars.
    — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
  • That is, if a full house is allowed and concerts and tractor pulls are a go.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2020
  • The tractor lurched to a halt, and a good-humored man named Dima climbed down from the cockpit.
    — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
  • The tractor-trailer then began to sink into the canal as the tanker still dangled from the bridge.
    — Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 23 July 2021
  • In the sweet shot, Farley, a TV producer, is smiling and pointing to a bright-red tractor in the corner of the photo.
    — Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 9 June 2025
  • The tractor portion of the truck caught fire, authorities said.
    — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 3 June 2025

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