How to Use bulldozer in a Sentence

bulldozer

noun
  • The man looked outside and saw a man driving a bulldozer toward his house.
    Robin Goist, cleveland.com, 31 July 2019
  • The four corners of a crawler are supported by pairs of bulldozer-like tracks.
    Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 29 June 2019
  • The man fled the scene on the bulldozer before officers arrived.
    Robin Goist, cleveland.com, 31 July 2019
  • And it was solved not with an army but a pump that lifted water away from one side of a wall, and a bulldozer that pushed dirt against the other.
    Karl Vick, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
  • There were tracked bulldozers, wheeled forklifts, and articulated dump trucks with beds the size of backyard swimming pools.
    Andrew Curry, WIRED, 26 June 2019
  • The 2006 study also found large blind spots on bulldozers, loaders, graders and other equipment.
    Mark Olalde, AZCentral.com, 26 June 2019
  • Outside, Mack cement mixers beep past John Deere bulldozers.
    Amanda Chicago Lewis, The Verge, 30 July 2019
  • Army soldiers have also been deployed to help combat the blaze, along with hundreds of vehicles, including four bulldozers.
    Fox News, 22 July 2019
  • About 201 firefighters have been on the scene, using engines and bulldozers to attempt to cut a fire line, Shearer said.
    Mike Carter, The Seattle Times, 22 July 2019
  • That gives it a little more protection but won’t stop bulldozers should the state decide to tear those buildings down to build something new and shiny to house an Alamo museum.
    Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 30 July 2019
  • Dispatchers diverted bulldozers from fighting fire to clearing roads.
    AZCentral.com, 23 July 2019
  • In April of 1970, with bulldozers on their way, community members formed a human chain and occupied the land.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Nineteen engines and four air tankers were at the scene, along with three bulldozers, according to a social media statement from Alameda County Fire.
    Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Most was removed back in 1953, when the Army leveled the site with bulldozers, but tunnel-digging ants occasionally push pieces of it up to the surface.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
  • From the outside looking in, that loss to the Chiefs seemed like a young team on the rise running into a bulldozer, an overpowering reminder that the work in Indianapolis was far from over.
    Joel A. Erickson, Indianapolis Star, 24 July 2019
  • 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
  • The field had so many levels of turf on it, bulldozers had to be brought in to remove tons of dirt.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • In the creek bed, a bulldozer shoveled up trash, debris and grass.
    Sara Cline, ExpressNews.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • 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

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