How to Use backhoe in a Sentence

backhoe

noun

• K-9s, drones and a backhoe were brought in to search the area.
  — Cincinnati.com, 23 Jan. 2020
• This would be a good time to own a backhoe business.
  — Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
• The rest of the lots are filled with sparse grass and fire ants, awaiting backhoes.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2018
• Special backhoes will skim that top layer of soil off the top.
  — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
• Earley was in his truck and a backhoe was moving snow across a street.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• Smith said the district needs to replace a backhoe and may need to buy a truck.
  — Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2020
• Reznick even raised money for new tires on the village backhoe, used to plow snow.
  — Freep.com, 17 July 2019
• One method deploys a backhoe to put moss back in place, then cover the moss with mulch.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2022
• The only things left were the trailer that sheltered him and a backhoe.
  — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2017
• The men resumed their digging while a backhoe rumbled back to life.
  — Jason Aldag, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2023
• Pinnick brought over a backhoe and a helper to remove the dead grass and do the grading.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• Like if you were handed a trowel and asked to move a mound of dirt that a backhoe just dumped at your feet.
  — Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2020
• Parents abandoned the backhoe and set to the earth with shovels.
  — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020
• Sometime that tool comes in the form of bigger shovels, plows and backhoes and the like.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 20 Jan. 2016
• Two children, ages 7 and 11, were run over by the backhoe and died at the scene.
  — Anna Caplan, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2021
• Crews scooped the rocks in nearby fields, then used backhoes to fashion them into crude berms.
  — Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
• Earlier in the video, the backhoe rams into two police cars and a car.
  — Caroll Alvarado, CNN, 14 Jan. 2022
• The brothers used a backhoe and small crane to remove much of the concrete casing.
  — Tony Leys, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• Little dams can be taken down by a small team with a backhoe, Tullos said.
  — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2024
• Photos from the scene show a small backhoe on the side of the feeder road and several squad cars.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 2 Oct. 2019
• Deputies brought in cadaver dogs and used a backhoe to search the property.
  — Robert Gearty, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2018
• The backhoe’s arm punctured Collins’ windshield, killing him.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
• Public works crews have used a backhoe to dig a trench so fireboats can get in, Giuliani said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
• Nearby, a crew of workers with a backhoe were working to attempt to repair the source of the leak.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2025
• Duvall was using a backhoe to load a dump truck with the gravel, according to deputies.
  — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 19 Apr. 2017
• Another man came to field-dress the bull, and hauled it away with a backhoe, but left the cow, the hunters told Baird.
  — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 27 June 2017
• One afternoon, Dave used the backhoe to dig a hole inside the corral.
  — Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2020
• Residents used Jet Skis, kayaks and a backhoe to get people out of the flood zone.
  — José De Córdoba and Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
• Rescue teams used a backhoe and dug 3 to 4 feet down to reach the pipe, then used sledgehammers to break open the pipe.
  — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2025
• Below, a very large chunk of the EAA is being torn up by backhoes and dump trucks.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024