How to Use excavator in a Sentence

excavator

noun

• The excavators found ancient tools at the site.
• One of the bodies wasn't found until an excavator dug through the debris.
  — Robert Allen, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2017
• The excavator inched after them, its roar slowly fading down the mountain.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
• Excavators had already smashed through the animal’s tail and rear end, which were permanently lost.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2017
• Dig This gives customers a chance to operate an excavator or a bulldozer.
  — By Anthony Andro, star-telegram, 7 June 2017
• The company plans to use an excavator with a bucket to scoop up the remains and put them into a dump truck to haul away, Torres said.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 14 July 2017
• The excavator’s arm actually moves—cue hours of scooping action.
  — Shanna Shipin, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2024
• Workers at a construction site in a Phoenix suburb huddled under an excavator to find a sliver of a shade during a break.
  — Bloomberg.com, 20 June 2017
• An excavator clears rubble in Sidon on Wednesday after Israeli airstrikes.
  — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
• Out West, the giant, open-pit mines use hulking excavators and require vastly fewer coal workers than in Appalachia.
  — Tim Loh, Bloomberg.com, 1 June 2017
• Bartolo’s employer must pay one cartel at least $300 a month for each piece of heavy machinery — such as excavators and backhoes —used on a project.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• Kids - and some parents and grandparents - had plenty of chances to sit behind the wheels of cement mixers, dump trucks, corn harvesters, school buses, graders, fire trucks, humvees, excavators, and loaders.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 June 2017
• The maker of excavators and heavy equipment is selling a lot less in China as the economy slows, construction slumps and competition stiffens.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2024
• In one, a bucket-wheel excavator makes gash after gash in the face of a hill; in another, hillcut soil flows along an eight-mile-long conveyor belt and is spread across newly reclaimed land, desolate and bright red.
  — Zining Mok, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2024
• The man had crashed through a fence and then used the arm of the excavator to lift the car.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2022
• The man offloaded the excavator and then used the machine and chains to lift up the trailer ramps.
  — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
• To the east, an excavator worked along the beach near a handful of sunbathers.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2019
• The dirt is laid out into two rows, the 11 semis come in, and excavators go down each row and load the dirt into the semis.
  — Zach Horrall, Indianapolis Star, 22 Mar. 2018
• Some images show an excavator at the site, and at least one shows a white bus.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• Crews then used an excavator to comb through the garbage, according to the AP.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
• The car struck a construction excavator on the north side of Sprague Road.
  — cleveland, 18 June 2020
• The excavator driver is the latest to be caught in the crossfire.
  — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2022
• But in December, his employer told him that there wasn’t enough work and he was laid off from a job doing a range of tasks, such as directing traffic around building sites, and operating excavators.
  — Reuters, Fortune, 19 June 2017
• The officer noticed paint chips on the excavator that matched that of the car.
  — cleveland, 18 June 2020
• An email message left for the lead excavator of the tomb was not returned.
  — oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2023
• The man was detained while driving an excavator on the Greek side of the border.
  — Fox News, 5 May 2018
• An excavator used to load the truck hit the wooden mats, which went toppling.
  — Nisa Khan, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2020
• An excavator pulled down a wall of the decades-old temple to help people flee.
  — Ashok Sharma, ajc, 31 Mar. 2023
• And because the lanes run across a shallow bridge, an excavator can’t be used to fix the erosion.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• Ensure an excavator was kept more than two feet from the trench’s edge.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024