How to Use bulldoze in a Sentence

bulldoze

verb

• The crew is bulldozing the trees.
• They bulldozed a road through the hills.
• The governor bulldozed the law through the legislature.
• Dillon took out two drivers in separate incidents on the race’s final lap in an attempt to bulldoze his way into the playoffs.
  — Jeff Gluck, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
• Israeli forces even bulldozed their village cemetery where generations of family members are buried.
  — Sally Abou Aljoud, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
• But this made employees feel as if the possibility of internal promotions were being bulldozed, and so some left.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
• At the start of the hike, part of the road appears to have been bulldozed away.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 1 Aug. 2019
• What happened when the area was bulldozed in the 1950s?
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2023
• These structures would be bulldozed to clear the way for the project.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
• The structure has since been condemned by the city and will have to be bulldozed to the ground.
  — Vanesa Brashier, Houston Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2018
• The unrest has been quelled and the town centre bulldozed.
  — The Economist, 23 June 2018
• The buyer bulldozed it and built a home worth close to $2 million in its place.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
• The play appeared set to have Payne and Williams -- a 593 pounds of them -- bulldoze a path for Harris to reach the end zone.
  — Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 2 Jan. 2018
• The shelter has been bulldozed, swank condos have been built around the area.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
• Now Nesbitt was proposing to bulldoze most of the structures on the site.
  — Sophie Cocke, ProPublica, 15 Aug. 2020
• The remains of the six-pump service station were bulldozed in June 1981 to make room for growth.
  — Meryl Kornfield, Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 July 2018
• There was no reason for it to be bulldozed, other than to just get rid of it.
  — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 6 Mar. 2020
• Defenders tried to take him down but Allen used all of his 245 pounds to bulldoze his way to the 6-yard line.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
• The Sun bullied them inside, bulldozing their way to 48 points in the paint.
  — Andrés Soto, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
• The property was sold and, in 1974, the new owner bulldozed the headstones.
  — Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 June 2018
• The garage has since been bulldozed and the housing plans are moving forward.
  — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024
• Still, Big Oil has more than enough money to bulldoze past any complaints and run out the clock.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 4 Nov. 2018
• Remember, that’s the guy who bulldozed those trees back in the 1990s as Cliven cheered him on.
  — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 18 May 2018
• The improvised forest was bulldozed, and the waist-high brush cut down.
  — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 21 May 2018
• They were evicted and their homes were bulldozed and burned when the city and the tribe agreed to clear the land for new development.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2017
• But Thomas is not yet ready to let developers bulldoze his place in the name of progress.
  — Atlanta Travel, ajc, 23 May 2017
• On Tuesday, to the dismay of volunteers, the city bulldozed the fence, which was made of wood pallets.
  — Barbara Boyer, Philly.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• Melwood will be bulldozed in 12 months’ time when first team move to Kirkby.
  — SI.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• Flintstones out, raptors in Some of Bedrock will be bulldozed.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 14 June 2019
• The garden used to be a landfill, left behind when a row of houses was bulldozed a few decades ago.
  — Kate Brown, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024