How to Use tractor in a Sentence
tractor
noun-
The pipes in the house started to whirr and clank like an old tractor.
— Hazlitt, 2 Oct. 2024 -
One day Frank saw a sweet—an Emerald—on the floor of the tractor.
— Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023 -
The bride and groom had a Range Rover on standby in case the tractor broke down.
— Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 16 July 2023 -
The front of the tractor-trailer struck the left side of the Chrysler in the intersection.
— Ngan Ho, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2022 -
The driver of the tractor-trailer died at the scene, police said.
— Casey Parks, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022 -
So the Ukrainian tankers towed away the T-72 using their own T-64 as the tractor.
— David Axe, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024 -
The small boy creeping out at night to retrieve a sweet from the floor of a tractor would fade.
— Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023 -
The condition of the driver of the tractor-trailer is not known.
— Tandra Smith | Tsmith@al.com, al, 5 Nov. 2022 -
The driver of the tractor-trailer, a 45-year-old New York man, was not injured in the crash.
— Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 31 Oct. 2022 -
One of their first projects was to build a small structure for their well, pump, and tractor.
— Sunset Magazine, 31 Aug. 2022 -
Jack mounted a tractor and pulled a long auger used to convey the corn off one of the grain bins.
— Melina Mara, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023 -
The machine looks like a cross between a Jeep and a tractor, with its wide tracks.
— Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022 -
Tester rode a tractor in the Fourth of July parade in Butte.
— E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024 -
The four deaths in the crash were sustained in the vehicles the tractor-trailer struck, DPS said.
— Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023 -
To raise more crops from the earth, tractor maker Deere & Co. is looking to space.
— Bob Tita, wsj.com, 1 May 2023 -
There were tractors and the headlights of border guard cars.
— Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023 -
Their tractors are said to cause hundreds of miles of traffic.
— Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023 -
The tractor-trailer was already there, backed up to the loading dock.
— New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022 -
Pile onto the tractor wagon for a ride, and take the kids to visit the farm animals.
— Alesandra Dubin, Country Living, 30 Sep. 2022 -
Video from the scene showed scores of tractor-trailers and cars backed up for miles along two eastbound lanes.
— Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 16 July 2022 -
Steven as a young child perched on a tractor beside his grandpa.
— Bianca Bagnarelli, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023 -
Kris raised his son on a farm east of the city, his only helping hand, strapping him to a tractor at age 5.
— cleveland, 23 Nov. 2022 -
The dangers of the border were highlighted in June with the deaths of 53 migrants in a tractor-trailer in Texas.
— Adam Shaw, Fox News, 3 Sep. 2022 -
After the crash, the man attempted to cross the northbound lanes when he was struck and killed by the tractor-trailer.
— Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Feb. 2022 -
The company now claims to be the world’s largest tractor maker by volume.
— Daniel E. Slotnik, New York Times, 1 May 2023 -
Almaz-Antey installed the Tor’s radar and missiles on a DT-30 tractor.
— David Axe, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2023 -
Just keep in mind that your mower's tractor hitch can't be used with this model.
— Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2022 -
The sedan came to a rest perpendicular to the road, blocking the first lane, when a tractor-trailer struck the it.
— Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2022 -
Images of the wreck appear to show the vehicle wedged under the rear of the tractor-trailer with part of the car’s roof sheared off.
— Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2022 -
One of those locals, Tom Graves, brought his tractor, with only about a half-inch leeway to get the scraper in, and cleared out her bar floors.
— Susan Young, People.com, 5 Oct. 2024
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