How to Use bulldozer in a Sentence

bulldozer

noun

• In the creek bed, a bulldozer shoveled up trash, debris and grass.
  — Sara Cline, ExpressNews.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• Along the road, a steady line of bulldozers headed toward the flames as cars filled with evacuees drove to safety.
  — Jill Tucker, SFChronicle.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• Maybe the memory of pavement, chains, bulldozers, and feathered boas will fade.
  — Paul Kvinta, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2019
• Rescue teams resumed search efforts around 6 a.m. and brought more equipment and bulldozers.
  — Mike Cruz, azcentral, 30 Nov. 2019
• Stores opened as municipal trucks and bulldozers began to scrape up the debris in areas hit by Israeli shelling.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• Wondering what will emerge from the cranes and bulldozers around downtown San Antonio?
  — Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• California's state fire agency placed fire engines and crews in position in some counties and had crews ready to staff aircraft and bulldozers.
  — CBS News, 20 Nov. 2019
• Last year, a massive fire tornado claimed the lives of a firefighter and bulldozer driver battling the Carr Fire.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 24 Oct. 2019
• In a large, initial attack the fire fighting effort has involved several engines, bulldozers and aircraft.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2019
• The 5-year-old boy who loved books and puzzles, playing with firetrucks, bulldozers and his two brothers was fatally beaten in his own home, prosecutors say.
  — Christy Gutowski, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• The state agency posted a video online that showed wildlife workers keeping the manatee wet until a bulldozer plowed a trench that allowed river water to reach the animal.
  — USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2019
• Three nearby bulldozers also had their windows blown out, with one operator getting glass in his eye and another receiving serious burns to his hands.
  — Jason M. Forthofer, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2019
• Once bustling with residents in markets and schools, its roads are now piles of rubble from Israeli military bulldozers, and mosques and homes are blown up, with people’s belongings strewn everywhere.
  — Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 7 Sep. 2024
• 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
• That guy may well have met his fate on the business end of a bulldozer.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2020
• In the central quad, there were new sand dunes shaped by bulldozers.
  — Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• Most of us aren’t going to lay down in front of a bulldozer or chain ourselves to a tree.
  — Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2021
• Next to the Target, a charter school looked as if a bulldozer had plowed through it.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
• Then, Eilish breaks into the house in a bulldozer to sing her portion of the song.
  — Chris Barilla, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2024
• Only then was the plane burned and buried with a bulldozer, as if to hide the evidence.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• Once workers heaved the bodies into the grave, the bulldozer pushed the displaced earth over them.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022
• In Omo Ranch, close to where the fire started, a bulldozer ripped out trees to build a fire line and stop the blaze from spreading south.
  — Arkansas Online, 21 Aug. 2021
• Leopard 2 tanks are low slung and have treads, like a bulldozer.
  — Michael Biesecker, Fortune, 9 June 2023
• The bulldozer driver turned around, got in his truck, and never came back.
  — Cathy Huyghe, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• 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
• One firefighter rolled his bulldozer down a ravine along the steep Hite Cove Trail and died.
  — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2021
• There, in the center of the grove, a bulldozer and four workers, also in hard hats and boots, were planting tulip trees.
  — Kathleen Beckett, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2020
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024