How to Use tractor in a Sentence
tractor
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The pipes in the house started to whirr and clank like an old tractor.
—Hazlitt, 2 Oct. 2024
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One day Frank saw a sweet—an Emerald—on the floor of the tractor.
—Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
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The bride and groom had a Range Rover on standby in case the tractor broke down.
—Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 16 July 2023
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At the time of our Zoom call, Ross had yet to name his tractor.
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2021
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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
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The front of the tractor-trailer struck the left side of the Chrysler in the intersection.
—Ngan Ho, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2022
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The driver of the tractor-trailer died at the scene, police said.
—Casey Parks, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022
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All-new free tractor rides are one of the standouts of this year's fair.
—Serena Puang, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Aug. 2021
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The last customer was the farmer across the street, who arrived on his tractor.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021
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So the Ukrainian tankers towed away the T-72 using their own T-64 as the tractor.
—David Axe, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
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The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured in the wreck.
—Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 18 Nov. 2020
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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
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The condition of the driver of the tractor-trailer is not known.
—Tandra Smith | Tsmith@al.com, al, 5 Nov. 2022
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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
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One of their first projects was to build a small structure for their well, pump, and tractor.
—Sunset Magazine, 31 Aug. 2022
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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
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Maresh even had to find someone to show him how to start his tractor.
—Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2021
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The machine looks like a cross between a Jeep and a tractor, with its wide tracks.
—Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
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Tester rode a tractor in the Fourth of July parade in Butte.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024
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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
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To raise more crops from the earth, tractor maker Deere & Co. is looking to space.
—Bob Tita, wsj.com, 1 May 2023
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There were tractors and the headlights of border guard cars.
—Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
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The tractor lurched to a halt, and a good-humored man named Dima climbed down from the cockpit.
—New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
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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
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Their tractors are said to cause hundreds of miles of traffic.
—Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023
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The tractor-trailer was already there, backed up to the loading dock.
—New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
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Pile onto the tractor wagon for a ride, and take the kids to visit the farm animals.
—Alesandra Dubin, Country Living, 30 Sep. 2022
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When a young trooper got his cruiser stuck in the mud, Brown towed him out with his tractor.
—Jim Mustian, Jake Bleiberg, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2021
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Schmidt said the industry has changed a lot over the years with large box stores, tractor supplies and the biggest of them all, Amazon, for online shopping.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2025
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The moveable tractor coop is in the field today, and the heirloom hens are inside, fertilizing the organic soil and eating insects.
—Scott Clark As Told To Betsy Andrews, Saveur, 3 Apr. 2025
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