How to Use tractor in a Sentence
tractor
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Once their walk was done the models were dragged into the sky by some alien abduction-style tractor beam.
— Luke Leitch, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2022 -
Tester rode a tractor in the Fourth of July parade in Butte.
— E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024 -
Two bridges closed due to high winds, which also caused multiple tractor trailers to overturn, the agency said.
— Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2022 -
Photos from the scene show several tractor-trailers and their contents scattered along the road.
— Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022 -
One driver captured a clip of the chain reaction of the crash, showing tractor-trailers and cars skidding off the road.
— Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE.com, 28 Mar. 2022 -
Two years ago, Slava, a tractor driver who lives near my house, found and dug up part of the barrel of a German tank.
— Andrey Kurkov, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022 -
Puppet show, petting zoo, costume contest, not-so-scary haunted trail, tractor rides, carnival games and more.
— Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 19 Sep. 2024 -
Three tractor-trailers were on fire when officials arrived on the scene, Blickley told the AP.
— Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE.com, 28 Mar. 2022 -
Some tanks, either abandoned or out of fuel, have even been filmed being carted away by tractor-driving Ukrainian farmers.
— Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2022 -
The former president’s comments appeared to be off the cuff, prompted only by the John Deere tractors that were set up as the backdrop of the event.
— Josephine Rozzelle, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2024 -
Russian troops were stalled on highways, unable to occupy major cities and losing equipment to Ukrainian farmers on tractors.
— Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024 -
Elementary school children on a field trip were among the injured when a wagon being pulled by a tractor overturned at an apple orchard in western Wisconsin.
— Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2024 -
Around 70 tractor-plow units and 10 air assets have worked for nearly a week to suppress the three fires, the Florida Forest Service said.
— Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2022 -
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 -
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 -
So the Ukrainian tankers towed away the T-72 using their own T-64 as the tractor.
— David Axe, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024 -
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 | Tsmith@al.com, 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 -
The machine looks like a cross between a Jeep and a tractor, with its wide tracks.
— Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022 -
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 -
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 -
Their tractors are said to cause hundreds of miles of traffic.
— Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023 -
The tractor-trailer was already there, backed up to the loading dock.
— New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022 -
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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