How to Use bulldozer in a Sentence

bulldozer

noun

• 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
• Once workers heaved the bodies into the grave, the bulldozer pushed the displaced earth over them.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022
• Leopard 2 tanks are low slung and have treads, like a bulldozer.
  — Michael Biesecker, Fortune, 9 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There could be a bulldozer that is going to edge into your path.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• All that remained was a smattering of ashes and the tread marks of bulldozers.
  — Julia Shipley, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2024
• During the day, crews use heavy equipment such as cranes, bulldozers and skip loaders, and there is no room for trains to pass.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
• Kids will love to take apart, build, and operate this bulldozer.
  — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2023
• Four team members crowded around an opening in the building’s side the bulldozer had widened with the teeth of its bucket.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• Across the street, a construction crew was working with a bulldozer behind a blue steel fence.
  — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2023
• Crews laid a bulldozer line between the blaze and the threatened town of Yreka, officials said.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• Workers were not using the laptop, for example, to try and send emails from the car or check a work order from the cab of a bulldozer.
  — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• His business was forced to close in 2016 when the area succumbed to the developers’ bulldozer.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• Only Liberty City seemed frozen in time, and then the bulldozers started rolling in.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• On Tuesday, bulldozers and responders dug through the wreckage around the clock in the hopes of finding the eight to 10 corpses still underneath.
  — Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Elshamy, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
• One of them, named Altun, gestured to a bulldozer to approach.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• Using bulldozer equipment can make the line as wide as 40 feet, Turner said.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 8 July 2023
• Her home is days away from getting crushed by bulldozers and carted away.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
• Scores of residents returned to the camp to find damaged cars and homes, as well as roads torn up by Israeli bulldozers.
  — Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• Nearby, a bulldozer worked a big mountain of gravel, dug from the deposits that the waters of the Santa Cruz River once moved.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
• Nasser said that before the video was taken, the bulldozer had retreated and changed routes half a dozen times to bypass him.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
• Kanan's death brings the total to 14 killed in the raid, which lasted two days and included airstrikes, hundreds of ground troops and bulldozers that were used to raze roads and buildings.
  — Nasser Nasser The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2023
• The bass moves like a bulldozer, the guitar wails like a siren, and the lead piano, even at its most ominous, bursts with that take-me-higher deep house energy.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2022
• On the lagoon side, Janet Mitchell recorded footage of a bulldozer shoring up a house at risk of losing its foundation, then posted a glimpse of calm seas.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• That’s what happens when a storm becomes a giant, swirling bulldozer that pushes a wall of water toward the shore.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024