backhoe

Example Sentences

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She watched as they gave up trying to cut a firebreak, abandoning their bulldozers and backhoes to the fire and running away.

From Literature

Using more than 30 backhoes and bulldozers, miners dug up 1,500 metric tons of earth a day, leaving in their wake a trail of environmental destruction.

From Los Angeles Times

And until the bulldozers and backhoes showed up this week, the president had explicitly denied the White House’s structure would be affected.

From Salon

On Friday, a gray and red backhoe moved piles of trash and other items into a large blue dumpster.

From Los Angeles Times

We passed by a checkpoint manned by the National Guard and the LAPD, then had to stop for 20 minutes on a narrow hillside road as a backhoe was unloaded from a flatbed truck.

From Los Angeles Times