backhoe

Example Sentences

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Festival-goers can compete for the title of best welder, crane operator or backhoe loader -- or be crowned the "Oildorado Queen."

From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025

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 • Apr. 10, 2025

“Not a backhoe, cement truck or crane within miles,” Chris Book, the institute’s administrative director, said.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2023

They trucked in 500 cubic meters of sand and spent weeks with a bulldozer and backhoe sculpting a beach and dune to look like shores along the northeastern United States.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 15, 2023

But when he was little, he loved the backhoe so much they called him Digger, and it stuck.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings