How to Use excavator in a Sentence

excavator

noun

• The excavators found ancient tools at the site.
• 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
• 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
• In April, an excavator hit a transmission tower in the south, and the lights went out again across the island.
  — Jenny Vrentas, SI.com, 23 May 2018
• Prince William used an excavator, and both his sons wanted to help out.
  — Town & Country, 9 May 2023
• Construction teams of 7,000 workers with armies of trucks and excavators dug and scraped around the clock to complete the project.
  — Amy Qin, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• Three of them approached three excavators and, one by one, locked themselves to the machines, bringing the day’s work to a halt.
  — Katie Myers, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2024
• The job went to Steve Smith, who brought his excavator over from his house, on part of the old Tenney property.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2021
• The excavator started by removing the siding and then the first level of the house.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2023
• An excavator struck the north side of the pavilion first, sending dust and debris flying through the air.
  — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2023
• At 8:33, the Volvo excavator clenched its metal claw and punched into the roof of the back wing, near an exit.
  — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 3 June 2020
• The agency plans on bringing in an excavator to scoop up the frozen waste where it can be placed in a safe container.
  — Fox News, 22 Dec. 2019
• Johnson said an excavator dug down four feet in the search area but nothing was found.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 9 Apr. 2022
• Some of the biggest excavators and dump trucks look like tiny ants within the massive construction zone of The Line in Neom.
  — New Atlas, 11 Aug. 2024
• In the middle of house and farm parcels is a former quarry that filled with water when an excavator hit a spring.
  — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2021
• Those excavators are sometimes in the water when the ocean tide rises.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 Aug. 2024
• Two excavators were tagged with graffiti and their fuel lines were cut overnight at a Granite Construction site.
  — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024