Examples of dragline in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Two gravel washing towers and a dragline that belonged to the family, along with some other unidentified construction tools that built the lake were left on site. — Dallas News, 30 June 2021 In the 1980s and ’90s many mining companies turned to mountaintop removal, a hyper-efficient mix of explosives, draglines and dozers that undoes hundreds of millions of years of geology in minutes. — Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020 Traditional cranes with clamshell or dragline buckets could do many things also, but not nearly as efficiently as a modern trackhoe. — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2019 Tom worked as a dragline operator many years before employment at Broward Schools in the Central Warehouse. — Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2018 Tom worked as a dragline operator many years before employment at Broward Schools in the Central Warehouse. — Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2018 Tom worked as a dragline operator many years before employment at Broward Schools in the Central Warehouse. — Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2018 Tom worked as a dragline operator many years before employment at Broward Schools in the Central Warehouse. — Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2018 Tom worked as a dragline operator many years before employment at Broward Schools in the Central Warehouse. — Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2018

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